Technical design

This completely updated volume covers the design, manufacturing, and inspection of high productivity drilling tools (HPDT) and addresses common issues with drilling system components.

The ubiquitous nature of transport signs on roadways, railways, and in airports can lead to an overload of visual information, yet little research has been done to understand the design and use of such signs from a driver's perspective.

This handbook supports the identification of inappropriate work design in manual materials handling and thus the prevention of overloading the body and of the development of health disorders.

Project scheduling is required for good project management, and the schedule represents the project plan under a specific set of assumptions, often that it will avoid new risks or even those that have occurred on previous occasions.

Modern Manufacturing Technology: Spotlight on Future summarizes the emergence and development of modern manufacturing techniques (MMTs) with a focus on metallic and advanced material-based additive manufacturing technologies and their potential applications.

Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'.

This book is a comprehensive survey on safety for older adults.

Exploring diagnostic mix, clinic size, on-site industrial rehabilitation program benefits, prevention medicine, and wellness and fitness strategies, this book describes how to establish an on-site occupational health program.

The current financial and on-going ecological crises have taught us that without practical wisdom, business, organisations and leadership cannot be sustainable.

Mathematical Programming has been of significant interest and relevance in engineering, an area that is very rich in challenging optimization problems.

In the past few years the topic of work and ageing has received much public and professional interest.

Dieses Lehr- und Übungsbuch fasst die wichtigsten Regeln des Technischen Zeichnens kompakt zusammen.

Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design.

How are today's 'hearts and minds' programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people's moral and mental deficits?

The engineering profession is at a critical juncture that requires reforming engineering education.

Many processes and systems manifest an increasing integration of mechanical and electronic components with information processing capacity.

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses?

This book focuses on the reliability engineering of medical devices, especially digital diagnosis and treatment equipment in China.

The book discusses the indispensable connection between the environment and health via all possible aspects, focussing on human interactions with the environment.

This book provides a basis by which instruments and transducers can be selected, assembled and integrated with a computer to measure and control physical processes in an accurate and predictable manner.

Muscle strength is an important topic for ergonomics practitioners and physiologists to understand, especially as it relates to workplace injuries.

Design Management is the essential handbook to all things design.

The primary objective of this book is to provide an easy approach to the basic principles of Engineering Drawing, which is one of the core subjects for undergraduate students in all branches of engineering.

The International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks is the leading international gathering of scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of ground vehicle dynamics to present and exchange their latest innovations and breakthroughs.

The primary objective of this book is to provide an easy approach to the basic principles of Engineering Drawing, which is one of the core subjects for undergraduate students in all branches of engineering.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This book coherently presents advances in design principles, processes, and methods in healthcare product design.

Part of the fifth edition of the classic Rolling Bearing Analysis, this book examines bearing performance and service life for more complex loading, more extreme operating conditions, and higher-speed applications.

In diesem Buch werden die Inhalte des Wissenschaftssymposiums „Ur- und Umformen“ der Volkswagen Komponente zusammengefasst.

Case histories of engineering success and failure are presented to enrich understanding of the design process.

This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow.

Structural properties play an important role in our understanding of linear systems in the state space representation.

Updated throughout for the second edition, Introduction to Mechanical Engineering: Part 1 continues to be the essential text for all first-year undergraduate students, alongside those studying for foundation degrees and HNDs.

The treatise supports understanding the phenomena of complexity in engineering, distinguishes complexity from other challenges and presents an overview of definitions and applied approaches.

This is the second of two edited volumes from an international group of researchers and specialists, which together comprise the edited proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Cranfield College of Aeronautics at Stratford-upon-Avon, England in October 1996.

This book gathers contributions presented at the 10th Workshop on Cyclostationary Systems and Their Applications, held in Grodek nad Dunajcem, Poland in February 2017.

This book explains the concept of wearable computing, need for wearable technology, its advantages, application areas, state of art developments in this area, required material and technology, possible future applications including cyborg developments and the need for this sphere of influence in the future.

This book provides in-depth information about the technical, legal, and policy issues that are raised when humans and artificially intelligent machines are enhanced by technology.

With the development of sensor technology, wireless communications, big data, and machine learning, there is an increasing interest in technologies and solutions that assess and predict the state of equipment and assets within various industrial settings.

This book describes psychosocial working conditions that negatively impact the mental and physical well-being of employees of various "e;assistance-related"e; professional groups, as well as individuals whose work is related to contact with demanding clients.

The API Individual Certification Programs (ICPs) are well established worldwide in the oil, gas, and petroleum industries.

The 2014 Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology and Engineering (STE 2014) was held in Singapore, December 8-9, 2014.

After a quick survey of the famous pioneers of human movement analysis and the actual needs in different domains, this book presents the main types of systems available on the market (with the pros and cons), and then details the most widely used: the optoelectronic systems using passive markers.

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.

Mechanical Engineering Design, Third Edition strikes a balance between theory and application, and prepares students for more advanced study or professional practice.

This volume provides an exceptional perspective on the nature, evolution, contributions and future of the field of Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE).

This is the proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2016, held in Alcala de Henares, Spain, in June 2016.

Parametric design and digital fabrication are enabling non-designers to mass produce non-standard, highly differentiated products - from shoes and tableware to furniture and even houses.