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Selecting metal materials - Introduction

Author: Philippe CHOMEL

Publication date: January 10, 2001

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2. Material design

The "preparation" of the material then becomes more "specialized", and the "metallurgist" becomes more of a "materialologist", a partner in a dialogue with the "designer".

The aim of this article is to enrich the common language of both. On the one hand, because teamwork combining the varied skills required can only be achieved by large enough companies or design offices, and more isolated designers must assume responsibility for the necessary dialogue with external partners; on the other hand, because technical language itself is cluttered with equivocal words that stem more from inherited habits than from the necessary rigor. What, for example, is to be thought of the meaning of the term "breaking load" of a material when there are "conventional elastic limit

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