Technical design

Development and execution of a successful ES&H program in today's profit-driven business climate is challenging and complex.

This book fills the gap between failure analysis theory and the actual conducts of the failure cases.

The reason that good interfaces are few and far between is really quite simple: they are extremely difficult to design and build properly.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of SU-Field Analysis, a groundbreaking framework that delves into the intricate realms of fields, substances, and interactions.

Written clearly and concisely, using jargon-free language that is easily understood, this book compresses research from the past few decades into an accessible resource.

Advocating a user-centered approach to medical technology design, this book covers the essential processes and specific techniques necessary to produce safe, effective, usable, and appealing medical systems and products.

Sustainability is a global issue and, with the advent of further legislation to make organizations "e;greener,"e; companies are keen to promote sustainable performance to survive in the market.

Linking comfort and design, this book is the first reference to explore the comfort/discomfort paradigm.

Safety and health professionals face a variety of potential legal and ethical issues.

Covering a wide range of topics on safety, reliability and risk management, the present publication will be of interest to academics and professionals working in a wide range of scientific, industrial and governmental sectors, including: Aeronautics and Aerospace; Chemical and Process Industry; Civil Engineering; Critical Infrastructures; Energy; Information Technology and Telecommunications; Land Transportation; Manufacturing; Maritime Transportation; Mechanical Engineering; Natural Hazards; Nuclear Industry; Offshore Industry; Policy Making and Public Planning.

Systems engineering principles are currently being applied to system safety best practices in several industries, as well as state and local governments.

A comprehensive reference for the prevention, control, and mitigation of slip, trip, and fall accidents, this volume covers standards and best practices relating to facility design, effective management control programs, test methods and standards relating to pedestrian safety, and slip resistance methods.

Discussing issues and concepts relating to human factors in simulation, this book covers theory and application in fields such as space, ships, submarines, naval aviation, and commercial aviation.

Blueprints, or ';prints,' show what is needed to make parts.

This book presents select proceedings of International Conference on Mechanical Engineering: Researches and Evolutionary Challenges (ICMech-REC 23).

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This book explores the issues surrounding medical errors and examines the science behind possible solutions.

This book discusses the specifics of safety regulations regarding nuclear risk and the safety of nuclear installations.

This third editionretains all the features that made each previous edition a bestseller in its own right.

This is a book about linear partial differential equations that are common in engineering and the physical sciences.

Certain activities and events both inside and outside a vehicle can distract drivers and lead to degraded performance.

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.

With a focus on the Italian School of machine design as founded by R.

This insightful reference demonstrates a system of measurement, inspection, gaging, geometric tolerancing, and fixturing of products in full compliance with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved standards.

"e;Explains how to assess and handle technical risk, schedule risk, and cost risk efficiently and effectively--enabling engineering professionals to anticipate failures regardless of system complexity--highlighting opportunities to turn failure into success.

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.

Liberally illustrated with actual design examples, this book demonstrates how people acquire and interpret information and examines the factors that undermine this process.

Nothing has been more prolific over the past century than human/machine interaction.

By considering vehicle, signal, and road lighting as integrated means of communication, this unique authoritative work explains the thinking and scientific reasoning behind various forms of lighting and analyzes their contribution to the driver's understanding of real and potential road hazards.

This book provides insights to the lay person as well as the experts who are actively enabling these changes in the construction industry.

Addressing the rising prevalence of interactive systems in our daily lives, this book focuses on the essential aspects of usability, user experience (UX), and inclusive design.

Synthesizing basic results on how to design human work with complex systems, Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering provides examples of successful cognitive systems engineering research and design.

Using clear, approachable examples, Universal and Accessible Design for Products, Services, and Processes defines and differentiates accessible versus universal design, and explores their relationship in a broad societal and global context.

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.

The third edition of a bestseller, Human Safety and Risk Management: A Psychological Perspective incorporates a decade of new research and development to provide you with a comprehensive and contemporary guide to the psychology of risk and workplace safety.

This book describes the origins and evolution of Canada's 30-year Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program.

'Behavioural safety' or behaviour-based safety (BBS) has been around as a concept for several decades and is commonly held to mean directly tackling the frontline behaviours that lead to incidents and injury.

Heat Recovery with Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Heat Pumps presents the basic concepts and thermodynamic behavior of mechanical vapor compression and recompression.

This book presents readers with an exploration of the concept of Conceptual Models and argues that they are core to achieving good design of interactive applications that are easy, effective, and enjoyable to use.

Asymptotic Methods for Engineers is based on the authors' many years of practical experience in the application of asymptotic methods to solve engineering problems.

Asymptotic Methods for Engineers is based on the authors' many years of practical experience in the application of asymptotic methods to solve engineering problems.

Manipulating the design process can be challenging for junior design, art and creative students.

Constricting styles and limited clothing choices can restrict a person with a disability from fully participating in social communities, employment and gatherings that have an unspoken dress code.

The text presents advances in the field of thermal claddings for protection against erosion, corrosion, and wear in hydraulic turbines, automobiles, agricultural equipment, power plant, chemical industries, and jet engines.

Vibration Engineering presents recent developments in the field of engineering, encompassing industrial norms, applications within the finite element method, infrastructure safety assessment, and active vibration control strategies.

At the core of this book are several application areas where Industry 4.

A common source of failure in a human dependent barrier or safety critical task is a designed in mismatch error.