Technical design

Moving from theory to practical reality, this book tackles both simple and complex issues, demonstrating how to create offices that accommodate all workers.

The book takes as its starting point the crisis of healthcare in the UK: impossible health targets managed through command and control management and a stomach-churning rise in racism, whistleblowing and victimisation in the NHS.

Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies presents the most recent developments in enhancing heat exchanger performance, reliability, and resilience, including the implementation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing.

This book focuses on and promotes the applications of the diverse tools and techniques of industrial engineering to the design and operation of systems in industry, business, the government, and the military.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Design (ICMechD) 2019.

This research shows the dynamic relationship between work, health and satisfaction.

Origami structures have the ability to be easily fabricated from planar forms, enable the deployment of large structures from small volumes, and are potentially reconfigurable.

As healthcare challenges such as human aging and traffic accidents continue to increase exponentially, the biomedical sector faces a significant obstacle in arranging patient-specific biomedical products.

Hearing is a prerequisite for the evolution of language and thus the development of human societies.

Industrially developing countries have the largest populations, the highest levels of poverty, poor health, and illiteracy, and the greatest need for improvement in working conditions.

Focusing on innovation, these proceedings present recent advances in the field of mechanical design in China and offer researchers, scholars and scientists an international platform to present their research findings and exchange their ideas.

One-of-a-Kind Tool Speeds Mechanical Design WorkDesigners at all levels of experience need a handy, comprehensive reference that helps them get the job done faster.

What is 'design creativity'?

Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and management of business enterprises.

With a rigorous and comprehensive coverage, the second edition of Compliant Mechanisms: Design of Flexure Hinges provides practical answers to the design and analysis of devices that incorporate flexible hinges.

This book identifies the challenges, solutions, and opportunities offered by smart energy grids (SEGs) with regard to the storage and regulation of diversified energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind, and ocean energy.

Die sichere Auslegung von Bauteilen kommt an der Anwendung bruchmechanischer Methoden heute nicht mehr vorbei.

Herbert William Heinrich has been one of the most influential safety pioneers.

Completely revised and updated, taking the scientific rigor to a whole new level, the second edition of the Occupational Ergonomics Handbook is now available in two volumes.

This is a complete and concise guide to creating and managing a successful environmental audit program.

This is the Proceedings of the International Congress of Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2018, held in Alicante, Spain, May 30-June 1, 2018.

During the past two decades incredible progress has been achieved in the instruments and devices used in the biomedical field.

Master Airline Pilot offers a process for improving pilots' skills in risk management, situational awareness building, decision making, communications, and crew management.

This book provides a thorough exploration of the step- by- step manufacturing processes utilized in the global production of synthetic detergents.

No other book covers CNC control setup in such practical detail.

Designed to help the instructor to present concepts in human factors, this guide is presented in lecture-note format with each unit outlining performance objectives, questions and answers, references to pages in the main text and large-print summaries for overhead projection.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury.

Die Bände der Maschinen- und Konstruktionselemente haben sich als Standard-Lehrbücher an Technischen Hochschulen für diese Vorlesungen durchgesetzt.

This book is based on the 55th International Conference of Machine Design Departments 2014 (ICMD 2014) which was hosted by the Czech Technical University in September 2014.

This book presents a co-design detailed methodology that will enable the reader to develop human-centered product designs, considering the user's needs, skills, and limitations.

Instructional design theory and practice has evolved over the past 30 years from an initial narrow focus on programmed instruction to a multidimensional field of study integrating psychology, technology, evaluation, measurement, and management.

This book provides a systematic description about the development of Isogeometric Topology Optimization (ITO) method using the density, and then addresses the effectiveness and efficiency of the ITO method on several design problems, including multi-material structures, stress-minimization structures, piezoelectric structures and also with the uniform manufacturability, ultra-lightweight architected materials with extreme bulk/shear moduli, auxetic metamaterials and auxetic meta-composites with the NPRs behavior in microstructures.

This book presents a novel method of engineering to create advanced frugal products from scratch.

Agile is a mindset and a culture that has evolved beyond software development to encompass all forms of project management, business organizations, defense, and society.

This text addresses the modeling of vibrating systems with the perspective of finding the model of minimum complexity which accounts for the physics of the phenomena at play.

Engineering systems are an important element of world economy.

This book is the first monograph focusing on ellipsoidal heads, which are commonly used as an end closure of pressure vessels in chemical, petroleum, nuclear, marine, aerospace and food processing industries.

Influencing the Quality, Risk and Safety Movement in Healthcare explores the inner workings of some of the most influential minds in healthcare quality, risk and safety.

This book describes the theoretical framework of parallel manipulators and presents examples of their application.

This volume presents research papers on additive manufacturing (popularly known as 3D printing) and joining which were presented during the 7th International and 28th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research conference 2018 (AIMTDR 2018).

Improving your craft is a key skill for product and user experience professionals working in the digital era.

The rail human factors/ergonomics community has grown quickly and extensively, and there is much increased recognition of the vital importance of ergonomics/human factors by rail infrastructure owners, rail operating companies, system developers, regulators and national and trans-national government.

To predict loading limits for structures and structural elements is one of the oldest and most important tasks of engineers.

The world is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by radical technological changes and an accelerated globalisation process.

Fluid mechanics is one of the most challenging undergraduate courses for engineering students.

The flow of two-phase mixtures through restrictions.