Materials Selection in Mechanical Design cover
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
by Michael F. Ashby
ISBN: 0081005997
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I would say that to start, read the Ashby books to get some basic sense of things. That, to me anyway, is really core and useful engineering practice. What to balance, what can be physically traded, and fundamental constraints.

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