411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Ashby plot
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
English
thumb|An Ashby plot of density versus Young's modulus for several materials
Etymology
en engineering
en Q3308905.
Noun
en engineering A scatter plot which arranges several materials by two material properties.
en Geoffrey Boothroyd Peter Dewhurst Winston Knight 2002 Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly second Boca Raton, F.L. w:CRC Press https://archive.org/details/productdesignfor0000boot/ 60 https://archive.org/details/productdesignfor0000boot/page/60/mode/1up 0585407096 Similar approximately uniform spread of materials across logarithmic property scales is found to apply also to derived material properties. This can be seen by viewing the spread of materials along the inclined lines in the Ashby plots, which represent a wide variety of derived parameters.