... into board such as laminated plywood, chipboard and fibre-building board.
Summary: wood compared to other materials
The mechanical properties of wood (a structural material of first importance ... joined by cementing, by welding and by various sorts of fasteners, many
themselves moulded from polymers. Joining, of course, can sometimes be avoided by
integral design, in which coupled components...
... worked or heat-treated into
finished products; and by understanding these, shape and size can, to a large extent,
be predicted.
Background reading
M. F. Ashby and D. R. H. Jones, Engineering Materials ... removed impurity from the left-hand end of the bar and dumped it at the right-
hand end; that is, we have zone refined the left-hand part of the bar.
Because we need to know how lon...
... unnormalised across the top and normalised by T
g
along the bottom. (The
normalisations make the diagrams more general: similar polymers should have similar
normalised diagrams.)
The diagram is divided, ... allowing them to be formed by injection moulding,
vacuum forming, blow moulding and compression moulding. Thermosets, on the other
hand, are heated, formed and cured simultaneously, usual...
... worked or heat-treated into
finished products; and by understanding these, shape and size can, to a large extent,
be predicted.
Background reading
M. F. Ashby and D. R. H. Jones, Engineering Materials ... what moving the molten zone along the bar has done to it: we
have removed impurity from the left-hand end of the bar and dumped it at the right-
hand end; that is, we have zone refine...
... devel-
oped for use in the aerospace industry, they are now much more widely used. The
dominant use of aluminium alloys is in building and construction: panels, roofs, and
frames. The second-largest ... equilibrium temperature. If, instead of using undersaturated
ammonium chloride solution, we pour saturated solution into the mould, we get what
is called “big-bang” nucleation. As the freshly...
... wear and tear. Untempered martensite is far too brittle for hammer
heads.
Having solved the immediate problem to our satisfaction we still wondered how the
manufacturer had managed to harden the ... bath of
molten salt at 450°C. Finally, the heads are removed from the tempering bath and
washed in cold water. The rather complicated austenitising treatment is needed be-
cause the Standard insis...
... then re-assembled and poured. When the casting has gone solid it
is removed by destroying the mould. Metal moulds are machined from the solid. They
Production, forming and joining of metals 143
Chapter ... of a shaped casting will directly determine the strength of the finished article.
Gas pores should be avoided, so the liquid metal must be degassed to remove dissolved
gases (either by addin...
... sliding, and allowing the clay to be formed
by hand or with simple machinery. When the shaped clay is dried and fired, one com-
ponent in it melts and spreads round the other components, bonding ... defect in the small volume subjected to the highest
stresses is small.
18.3 Modulus-of-rupture tests were done on samples of ceramic with dimensions
l = 100 mm, b = d = 10 mm. The median value of...