Technical design

As virtual reality expands from the imaginary worlds of science fiction and pervades every corner of everyday life, it is becoming increasingly important for students and professionals alike to understand the diverse aspects of this technology.

The mathematical description of the properties of a shell is much more elaborate than those of beam and plate structures.

Research into gastrointestinal motility has received renewed interest in part due to recent advances in the techniques for measuring the structure and function of gastrointestinal cells, tissue and organs.

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.

Nonlinear dynamics has been enjoying a vast development for nearly four decades resulting in a range of well established theory, with the potential to significantly enhance performance, effectiveness, reliability and safety of physical systems as well as offering novel technologies and designs.

To determine the carrying capacity of a structure or a structural element susceptible to operate beyond the elastic limit is an important task in many situations of both mechanical and civil engineering.

This volume addresses the cultural, technical and ethical motivations of the history of drawing of machines and its developments step by step.

This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture.

This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being.

The capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen places human capabilities at the centre stage of discussions about justice, equality, development and the quality of life.

In the past decades asset intensive companies have witnessed a number of regulatory changes and especially industry is facing ever increasing competitiveness.

This book contains selected papers presented at MAMM 2010, the First Workshop on Microactuators and Micromechanisms.

This book represents the fourth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots.

This publication reviews most of the available literature on the fatigue properties of annealed Ti-6Al-4V and titanium alloys with similar microstructures.

Nonlinear phenomena should play a crucial role in the design and control of engineering systems and structures as they can drastically change the prevailing dynamical responses.

Plate structures are used in almost every area of engineering, including aerospace and naval architecture, civil engineering, and electronics.

Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue are a widely referenced summary of advances in aeronautical design against fatigue.

This volume describes the latest developments in protective clothing against nearly any kind of threat for both military and civilians.

 "e;The Automotive Body"e; consists of two volumes.

This volume contains the refereed and revised papers of the Fourth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'10), held in Stuttgart, Germany.

There has been significant interest for designing flight controllers for small-scale unmanned helicopters.

This book describes the active vibration control techniques which have been developed to suppress excessive vibrations of structures.

The drone industry is one of the most exciting and dynamic sectors in the modern world, growing and developing at an exponential pace.

Delft Design Guide provides an overview of the perspectives, models, approaches, and methods used in the bachelor's and master's curriculum of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The dilemma facing Cyprus—that of limited water supplies (both in terms of quantity and quality) in the face of steadily increasing water demand, coupled with a fragmented institutional structure of the water sector—is characteristic of most arid and semi-arid countries all over the world.

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In recent years microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have emerged as a new technology with enormous application potential.

Dealing with environmental issues should no longer be considered simply as a cost of doing business.

High loads with high dynamics in severe conditions can only be driven by fluid power mechanisms.

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This book is about the functions of technical artefacts, material objects made to serve practical purposes; objects ranging from tablets of Aspirin to Concorde, from wooden clogs to nuclear submarines.

Phenomenology of Diesel Combustion and Modeling Diesel is the most efficient combustion engine today and it plays an important role in transport of goods and passengers on land and on high seas.

Man is the best thing in the World.

Pneumatic conveying is one of the most popular methods of handling bulk powdered and granular materials in mining, chemical and agricultural industries.

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Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves.

The 31st Conference and the 25th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue will be hosted in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, by the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, under the auspices of the Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers NVvL, the Technical University of Delft and Stork Fokker AESP B.

The aim of this book is to present pedestrian injuries from a biomechanical perspective.

The First African InterQuadrennial ICF Conference "e;AIQ-ICF2008"e; on Damage and Fracture Mechanics - Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials and Structures"e;, Algiers, Algeria, June 1-5, 2008 is the first in the series of InterQuadrennial Conferences on Fracture to be held in the continent of Africa.

In this book the Russian expertise in the field of the design of precise vacuum mechanics is summarized.

Structural optimization is currently attracting considerable attention.

Using such terms as science and technology, which have been relatively - cently adopted, to write about situations and events that occurred 2,500 years ago, may be a paradox.

Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time.

Inductive powering has been a reliable and simple method for many years to wirelessly power devices over relatively short distances, from a few centimetres to a few feet.

This is the second volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect c- tributed papers within a framework that can serve as a collection of persons in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science).

We live in an age in which one can easily think that our generation has invented and discovered almost everything; but the truth is quite the opposite.

Today, people are in an era of digitally mediated Human-to-Human Interaction, which cannot provide full sensorial contact and therefore, emotions cannot be communicated completely.

Stress and strain analysis of rotors subjected to surface and body loads, as well as to thermal loads deriving from temperature variation along the radius, constitutes a classic subject of machine design.