Technical design Books

Development of environmentally friendly products gains an increasing - portance in science and in industry. While product development was strongly dedicated to achieve quality, cost and time targets, environmental issues indirectly had always been under...

The proceedings contain papers accepted for the 17th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, which was held in Cracow, Poland, September 6-10, 2010. Concurrent Engineering (CE) has a history of over twenty years. At first, primary focus...

Embedded computer systems are now everywhere: from alarm clocks to PDAs, from mobile phones to cars, almost all the devices we use are controlled by embedded computers. An important class of embedded computer systems is that of...

The current marketplace is undergoing an accelerated pace of change that challenges corporations to innovate new techniques to respond rapidly to an ever-changing environment. At the center of this changing environment is a new...

There is an important overlap between science and design. The most significant technological developments cannot be produced without designers to conceptualize them. By the same token, designers cannot do their job properly without a good understanding...

In the first decade of the 21st century product development in networks was predicted to be of ever-increasing importance to businesses of all sizes because of changes in markets, in technology, in networks, and in the competences of Businesses. The...

Globalization, the process of increased interconnectedness among countries and economies, has had a profound impact on various aspects of modern life. One notable consequence of globalization is "sachetization," a phenomenon that reflects changes in...

An unabridged, digitally enlarged printing to include over 160 highly detailed illustrations.

Uses Finite Element Analysis (FEA) as Implemented in SolidWorks SimulationOutlining a path that readers can follow to ensure a static analysis that is both accurate and sound, Introduction to Static Analysis using SolidWorks Simulation effectively...

""Geodetic Surveying and the Adjustment of Observations: Method of Least Squares"" is a comprehensive guide to the principles and techniques of geodetic surveying. Written by Edward Lovering Ingram and first published in 1911, this book covers the theory...

This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today's business and society. Drawing on contributions from a wide range of expert thinkers, this volume assesses the existing approaches, strategies and tools which facilitate...

This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the industrial arts and sciences, first published in the late 19th century. The book includes detailed information on a wide range of topics, including manufacturing processes, commercial products, and...

This textbook is based on lectures and tutorials given for several years at the Physics Department of Novosibirsk State University. It is constructed as a set of problems followed by detailed solutions and may act as a complementary text for standard...

Theoretical and practical interests in additive manufacturing (3D printing) are growing rapidly. Engineers and engineering companies now use 3D printing to make prototypes of products before going for full production. In an educational setting faculty,...

Current-Mode digital circuits have been extensively analyzed and used since the early days of digital ICs. In particular, bipolar Current-Mode digital circuits emerged as an approach to realize digital circuits with the highest...

SMC COLOMBIER FONTAINE is a company in the AFE METAL group, which uses a sand casting process to manufacture steel primary parts. To reduce the "time to market", primary part producers need to reduce the time and cost of the...

Joints in components or structures incur a weight penalty, are a source of failure, cause manufacturing problems, and are unfortunately unavoidable in most structures ranging from aircraft, and spacecraft to ships and offshore...

Food packaging materials have traditionally been chosen to avoid unwanted interactions with the food. During the past two decades a wide variety of packaging materials have been devised or developed to interact with the...

As was the case with Charles Ross's Packaging of Pharmaceuticals published by the UK Institute of Packaging in 1975 it is assumed that the reader of this book already has a broad understanding of the basics of packaging. If not...

Ausgangspunkt für die Einführung von CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) ist, daß alle technischen und organisatorischen Maßnahmen am Menschen orientiert sein müssen und dessen Unterstützung erfordern. Unter CIM wurde in...

Die vorUegende Arbeit entstand wahrend meiner Tatlgkeit als wissensehaftlieher Angestellter am Instltut fur Datenverarbeitung in der Teehnik des Kernforsehungszentrums Karlsruhe. Meinen Referenten Herrn Prof. Dr.-Ing. ...

Die zunehmende Komplexitiit von N-Anwendungssystemen und die Heterogenitiit der bereitgesteUten Zielumgebungen stellen heutzutage jedes Unternehmen vor vielfaltige Aufgaben. Die Entwicklung von An­ wendungssoftware ist ein...

1. Definition und Abgrenzung Am Beginn einer Darstellung tiber ein so umfangreiches Gebiet wie das der Arbeitswissenscbaft sollte zum besseren Verstandnis und zur Vereinheitlichung der Sprache eine Definition des Be­ griffes...

This book provides insight into concept of the weak interaction and its integration into the conceptual structure of elementary particle physics. It exhibits the important role of the weak interaction in nuclear, particle and astrophysics together with...

Publications in food technology proliferate; however, noticeable by its absence of coverage is the subject of processing and packaging of particulates in foods. Recent years have seen significant advances which will almost...

Packaging is an essential feature of modern life. The science and art of packaging is so vast that no single book or even a multivolume work could hope to cover the entire scope of topics, from Artwork to Zipper. This volume...

This book offers a survey of successful attributes of the systems engineer. It focuses on the key positive attributes of what today's systems engineer should be and puts a model in place for achievement and behavior for future systems engineers. The...

This book aims to inform the reader how to improve the precision of metal AM processes by tackling the three principles of robustness, predictability and metrology, and by developing computer-aided engineering methods that empower rather than limit AM...

The manufacturing system is going through substantial changes and developments in the light of industry 4.0. Newer manufacturing technologies are being developed and applied. There is need to optimize these techniques when applied in different...

This volume covers the technologies, machine tools, and operations of non-traditional machining processes, and assisted machining technologies. Design for machining, accuracy and surface integrity of machined parts, environment-friendly machine tools and...

This volume describes the fundamentals, basic elements, and operations of general-purpose metal cutting and abrasive machine tools used for the production and grinding of cylindrical and flat surfaces by turning, drilling, and reaming, shaping and...

The good news is that aviation fatalities have fallen dramatically in recent years. An understanding of these phenomena promises to bring the fatality rate even lower. This book is the most advanced book in its field. It describes commercial...

Covering the applied science, manufacturing methods and mathematics related to cycles and cycling in an easy-to-understand way which will be accessible to both experienced cyclists and laypeople. This book will be a particularly useful resource for...

Electrodissolution Processes: Fundamentals and Applications discusses the basic principles involved in high-rate anodic dissolution processes and their application in advanced machining, micromachining, and finishing operations. The fundamentals section...

The aim of this book is to show the potential of natural hydrocolloids and active agents to develop sustainable edible packaging materials for food preservation. For this, the current and future sources of natural hydrocolloids have been reviewed along...

una guía para principiantes sobre las técnicas fundamentales de la fabricación del calzado¿Quieres aprender a hacer patrones de calzado? ¿Sabrías la diferencia entre diseñar una horma de un zapato de tacón alto y una deportiva, o un zapato de vestir? En...

The field of industrial design engineering is focused in this detailed book. A rapid paced altering world needs dynamic techniques and robust theories to allow designers to deal with novel product advancement landscape favorably and make a difference in...

This is an insightful book that describes novel frontiers in the field of industrial design. A new class of modern designers is fast emerging on the scene. These non-conventional industrial designers work across disciplines, analyze human mindsets, trade...

This book provides new insight on the problem of closed-loop performance and oscillations in discontinuous control systems, covering the class of systems that do not necessarily have low-pass filtering properties. The author...

This book discusses concepts of good design from social perspectives grounded in anthropology, sociology and philosophy, the goal being to provide readers with an awareness of social issues to help them in their work as design professionals. Each...

The SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2020 Black Book is the 3rd edition of our series on SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The book is targeted for beginners of SolidWorks Flow Simulation. This book covers the basic equations and terms of Fluid Dynamics...

The SolidWorks Flow Simulation 2020 Black Book is the 3rd edition of our series on SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The book is targeted for beginners of SolidWorks Flow Simulation. This book covers the basic equations and terms of Fluid Dynamics theory. The...

Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process. The design process in most industries is an evolutionary one (i.e., incremental changes to some existing design). DE is a...

The advent of sophisticated packaging materials and methods had stimulated the development of complex delivery systems from producer to consumer, resulting in the availability of a wide range of products at an affordable...

In most manufacturing companies efforts to fully optimise the use of resources is only carried out within each functional unit. It is therefore difficult to achieve full optmisation, creating islands of automation with little knowledge or regard to the...

The FreeCAD 0.21 Black Book is the new, updated 4th edition of our series on FreeCAD. This book is written to help beginners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. In this book, we have tried to...