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Take a bow, Dr Knife Steel: inspirational, blessed and down-to-earth. My comparable obsession with austenitic steels has now gone fully virtual thanks to materi

by DrNuke 8y ago

Take a bow, Dr Knife Steel: inspirational, blessed and down-to-earth. My comparable obsession with austenitic steels has now gone fully virtual thanks to materials informatics.

AYBABTME 8y ago
Any pointers? I have casually explored material sciences on Coursera, and I'm always interested in computer-aided fields. But I had never heard of material informatics. Is there anything CAD-like for the field?
- DrNuke 8y ago
  Georgia Tech courses there are a nice intro https://www.coursera.org/gatech https://www.coursera.org/gatech ... in particular the one by Prof Kalidindi for materials informatics once you are familiar with the general, underlying physics https://www.coursera.org/learn/material-informatics https://www.coursera.org/learn/material-informatics and then this for high-throughput experiments if you have your own lab https://www.coursera.org/learn/high-throughput https://www.coursera.org/learn/high-throughput
- brennanpeterson 8y ago
  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. https://www.amazon.com/Materials-Selection-Mechanical-Design-Fifth/dp/0081005997 https://www.amazon.com/Materials-Selection-Mechanical-Design...
- jgamman 8y ago
  email the PhD guy who wrote the website you've just commented on and ask if he will recommend/supervise your personal learning at the rate of 50$/hr (or whatever). Aside from the credentialing problem, you will get an amazing return on investment - just view it as buying hours of your own time _not_ wasted on @$@#$# youtube videos. If you're an over-achiever, you might negotiate a lower price on the understanding that the curriculum he develops (with your feedback/experience) for you stays with him and he markets it on the forums he has credibility in.

by DrNuke 8y ago

Take a bow, Dr Knife Steel: inspirational, blessed and down-to-earth. My comparable obsession with austenitic steels has now gone fully virtual thanks to materials informatics.

AYBABTME 8y ago

Any pointers? I have casually explored material sciences on Coursera, and I'm always interested in computer-aided fields. But I had never heard of material informatics. Is there anything CAD-like for the field?

DrNuke 8y ago
Georgia Tech courses there are a nice intro https://www.coursera.org/gatech https://www.coursera.org/gatech ... in particular the one by Prof Kalidindi for materials informatics once you are familiar with the general, underlying physics https://www.coursera.org/learn/material-informatics https://www.coursera.org/learn/material-informatics and then this for high-throughput experiments if you have your own lab https://www.coursera.org/learn/high-throughput https://www.coursera.org/learn/high-throughput
brennanpeterson 8y ago
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. https://www.amazon.com/Materials-Selection-Mechanical-Design-Fifth/dp/0081005997 https://www.amazon.com/Materials-Selection-Mechanical-Design...
jgamman 8y ago
email the PhD guy who wrote the website you've just commented on and ask if he will recommend/supervise your personal learning at the rate of 50$/hr (or whatever). Aside from the credentialing problem, you will get an amazing return on investment - just view it as buying hours of your own time _not_ wasted on @$@#$# youtube videos. If you're an over-achiever, you might negotiate a lower price on the understanding that the curriculum he develops (with your feedback/experience) for you stays with him and he markets it on the forums he has credibility in.