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Structural Materials

Properties and Selection

  • Specially conceived for graduate and undergraduate courses and for beginners in materials science

  • Complemented with 117 exercises, problems and case-studies

  • Presents the main structural materials and their utilization in different engineering applications

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Conversion of Units

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 1-6
  3. Introduction to Structural Materials: Naturals, Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, and Composites

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 7-17
  4. Structural Materials: Metals

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 19-76
  5. Structural Materials: Ceramics

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 77-132
  6. Organic Polymers

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 133-162
  7. Composites

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 163-191
  8. Selection of Structural Materials: Combined Mechanical Properties and Materials-Selection Charts

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 193-203
  9. Materials for Beams

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 205-247
  10. Materials for Columns and Struts (Compression–Tension)

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 249-273
  11. Materials for Pressure Vessels

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 275-287
  12. The Cost Factor for the Selection of Materials

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 289-300
  13. Materials Resistant to Fatigue: Quenched and Tempered Steels

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 301-347
  14. Considerations of Temperature in the Service and Behaviour of Materials

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 349-356
  15. Additional Conclusions

    • José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja
    Pages 357-362
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 363-372

About this book

The book covers the most important materials (naturals, metals, ceramics, polymers and composites) to be used mainly as structural engineering materials. Their main applications based on the properties are described in the first chapters of the book: mechanical, physical and chemical. The second part of the book is dedicated to the conceptual design by properties for a certain structural application: stiffness, mechanical strength, toughness, fatigue resistance, creep, etc., taking into account the weight and the cost. One of the chapters of the second part of the book is focused on the heat treatments of steels in order to improve their resistance to fatigue. The book concludes with a critical comparison between materials considering their production, properties and cost, and the forecast about the utilization of the different fields of materials in structural applications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Escuela de Ingeniería de Minas, Energía y Materiales de Oviedo, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

    José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja

About the authors

José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz (1934-2012) had a Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Barcelona (Spain), was a founder member of the International Metallographic Society (USA), a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) and Mêmbre d’Honneour de la Société Française de Métallurgie et des Matériaux. He was adviser on Physical Metallurgy matters for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as well as for Arcelor Mittal-Europe and was member of the Conseil Scientifique des Usines Renault. He was the Responsible of Research and Development of the Group of Materials in the Oviedo and Madrid School of Mines and professor in both schools for more than 30 years. He has published several books: Materiales Metálicos. Solidificación, Diagramas, Transformaciones (Dossat, Madrid, 1988, ISBN: 84-237-0729-6); Materiales para Ingeniería. Fundiciones Férreas (Dossat, Madrid, 1994, ISBN: 84-237-0822-5); Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales. Estructura, Transformaciones, Propiedades y Selección (5 editions, Dossat 2000, Madrid, 2000, ISBN: 84-95312-18-2); Aceros. Metalurgia Física, Selección y Diseño (Dossat 2000, Madrid, 2004, ISBN: 84-89656-54-1); Solidification and Solid-state Transformations of Metals and Alloys (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-12-812607-3); Materiales para Ingeniería. Fundiciones Férreas (Pedeca Press Publicaciones S. L. U., Madrid, 2018, ISBN: 978-84-697-8834-9); Physical Metallurgy of Cast Irons (Springer International Publishing, Chem (Switzerland), 2018, ISBN ebook: 978-3-319-97313-5; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97313-5; ISBN hardcover: 978-3-319-97312-8).


Daniel Fernández González (fernandezgdaniel@uniovi.es), Master in Mining Engineering and Materials Science and Technology from the University of Oviedo. Prize to the best end of degree project in the environmental field Gas Natural-Fenosa. Nowadays, he prepares his PhD. Student granted by the Spanish Government in the field of concentrated solar energy in metallurgy and materials. He is author of 15 articles in indexed journals, and he has published the books: Materiales para Ingeniería. Fundiciones Férreas (Pedeca Press Publicaciones S. L. U., Madrid, 2018, ISBN: 978-84-697-8834-9), Physical Metallurgy of Cast Irons (Springer International Publishing, Chem (Switzerland), 2018, ISBN ebook: 978-3-319-97313-5; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97313-5; ISBN hardcover: 978-3-319-97312-8). He has participated in several research projects. 


Luis Felipe Verdeja González (lfv@uniovi.es) has a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Oviedo, where he is a professor of Materials Science and head of the Siderurgy, Metals and Materials Group (Sid-Met-Mat). His research focuses in the application, maintenance, and wear of refractory linings in blast furnaces and other metal and steels production processes. He has published more than 100 articles, and has participated in more than 40 research projects (public and private). He has published 8 books: Ciencia de Materiales (Eléctricos) (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, 1994, ISBN: 84-7468-804-3); Metalurgia Extractiva. Volumen I. Fundamentos (Síntesis, Madrid, 2000, ISBN: 84-7738-802-4); Metalurgia Extractiva. Volumen II. Procesos de Obtención (Síntesis, Madrid, 2000, ISBN: 84-7738-803-2); Prácticas y Problemas de Siderurgia (Fundación Luis Fernández Velasco, Oviedo, 2000, ISBN: 84-931202-2-7); Materiales Refractarios y Cerámicos (Síntesis, Madrid, 2008, ISBN: 978-84-975655-9-2); Refractory and Ceramic Materials (Síntesis, Madrid, 2014, ISBN: 978-84-907705-6-6); Solidification and Solid-state Transformations of Metals and Alloys (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-12-812607-3); Materiales para Ingeniería. Fundiciones Férreas (Pedeca Press Publicaciones S. L. U., Madrid, 2018, ISBN: 978-84-697-8834-9); Physical Metallurgy of Cast Irons (Springer International Publishing, Chem (Switzerland), 2018, ISBN ebook: 978-3-319-97313-5; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97313-5; ISBN hardcover: 978-3-319-97312-8).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Structural Materials

  • Book Subtitle: Properties and Selection

  • Authors: José Antonio Pero-Sanz Elorz, Daniel Fernández González, Luis Felipe Verdeja

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26161-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26160-3Published: 11 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26163-4Published: 12 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26161-0Published: 25 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 372

  • Number of Illustrations: 149 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Structural Materials, Materials Engineering, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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