Mechanical engineering

Product design significantly influences product cost and quality, as well as market share and profitability of a firm.

Financial measures have traditionally been the cornerstone of the perform- ance measurement system.

BACKGROUND There is an increasing awareness that 'time to market' is the key competitive issue in the manufacturing industry today.

by Bob Camp The business improvement topic and quality tool called benchmarking is becoming widely understood and broadly applied.

Quality is a customer issue.

Rubber Toughened Engineering Plastics covers the main physical principles involved in optimum toughening in high temperature engineering plastics and speciality plastics and describes the synthetic strategies used to obtain satisfactorily toughened grades in these materials by control of microstructure.

With the approach of the 21st century, and the current trends in manufacturing, the role of computer-controlled flexible manufacturing an integral part in the success of manufacturing enterprises.

Contributed by leading authorities in the field from around the world, this text provides a comprehensive insight into buckling and postbuckling.

This book serves as a textbook for an introductory course on performance management.

Aspect '94 is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the present and future of the pipeline systems industry.

This book contains the edited version of the lectures presented at the NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE on "e;COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS OF RIGID AND FLEXIBLE MECHANICAL SYSTEMS"e;.

The objective of this book is to bring together contributions by eminent researchers from industry and academia who specialize in the currently separate study and application of the key aspects of integration.

Electronic technology is developing rapidly and, with it, the problems associated with the cooling of microelectronic equipment are becoming increasingly complex.

The Eurotherm Committee has chosen Thermal Management of Electronic Systems as the subject of its 29th Seminar, at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 14-16 June 1993.

Nanophase Materials is the first and, as yet, the only comprehensive book published in this new and exciting area of materials science.

Advances in computational mechanics can only be achieved on the basis of fruitful discussion between researchers and practising engineers.

Intelligent systems of the natural kind are adaptive and robust: they learn over time and degrade gracefully under stress.

The Boundary Element Method is a simple, efficient and cost effective computational technique which provides numerical solutions - for objects of any shap- for a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.

Infrared Thermography gives a thorough introduction to the principles, techniques, and applications of infrared imaging systems.

This book is about survival.

Graduate research is a complicated process which many engineering and science students aspire to undertake.

Our rationale for the second edition remains the same as for the first edition, which appeared over twenty years ago.

The rapid growth in use of programmable technology, in nearly all sectors of Engineering, is a well-known established trend and one which there is every reason to believe will continue into the foreseeable future.

This book has been written to provide both students and industrial man- agers with a comprehensive description of the tools and techniques of Quality Management and also to provide a framework for understanding Quality Development.

Accessible and generously illustrated in full colour, this reference spans the history of glass, the raw materials and the manufacturing process, as well as its many products.

Aeroelasticity is the study of flexible structures situated in a flowing fluid.

Advances in Structural Optimization presents the techniques for a wide set of applications, ranging from the problems of size and shape optimization (historically the first to be studied) to topology and material optimization.

The aim of this book is to provide an account of the state of the art in Com- putational Kinematics.

This book is concerned with Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and techniques as applied to industrial decision making, control and automation problems.

Mechatronic Design in Textile Engineering contains a selection of contributions to the NATO ASI which took place in April 1992, in Turkey.

The MESA Research Institute of the University of Twente was created in 1990 through the joining of the research unit Sensors and Actuators with the department of Microelectronics.

Model based control has emerged as an important way to improve plant efficiency in the process industries, while meeting processing and operating policy constraints.

This comprehensive book provides guidelines for maximizing plastics proc- essing efficiency in the manufacture of all types of products, using all types of plastics.

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads.

Hydraulic machinery such as turbines and pumps is widely used around the world.

It is a feature of the history of the subject that the study of atomic physics was accompanied by a partial neglect of that of classical mechanics.

Today research on creep and shrinkage of concrete is diversified to such a degree that specialists working in different areas sometimes find it difficult to understand one-another.

The popularity of the Boiler Operators Handbook has prompted the issue of a revised edition.

Nonlinearity and stochastic structural dynamics is of common interest to engineers and applied scientists belonging to many disciplines.

This book contains an edited versIOn of lectures presented at the NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE on VIRTUAL NONLINEAR MUL TIBODY SYSTEMS which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 23 June to 3 July 2002.

Non-linear stochastic systems are at the center of many engineering disciplines and progress in theoretical research had led to a better understanding of non-linear phenomena.

Structural vibrations have become the critical factor limiting the performance of many engineering systems, typical amplitudes ranging from meters to a few nanometers.

The word tribology was fIrst reported in a landmark report by P.

Injection moulding is the most important moulding process used by the plastics industry and some idea of its importance can be obtained by considering the following figures.

This book is intended for those people who have a knowledge or understanding of rubber materials and processes but who wish to update their knowledge.

Although finite elasticity theory has its roots in the nineteenth century, its development was largely neglected until the end of the Second World War.