Extra: E-Book included. All materials that designers need in their daily work are presented in this manual. Each material is described based on its technological and application-related properties, processing and manufacturing methods, and supplemented with practical examples from various industries. Part I Methods of Material Selection, Part II Steel and Other Iron Materials, Part III Non-Ferrous Metals as Construction Materials, Part IV Non-Metallic Construction Materials, Part V Materials in the Product Lifecycle, Part VI Materials as Innovation Drivers. In the 2nd, revised edition, new developments in materials have been taken into account. The following topics have been completely newly included: lightweight steels, cast iron, transparent ceramics, biodegradable and bio-based plastics, zirconium alloys. Many new application examples.