Technical design

As the existence of all life forms on our planet is currently in grave danger from the climate emergency caused by Homo sapiens, the words "e;sustainability"e; and "e;eco-responsibility"e; have entered the daily-use vocabularies of scientists, engineers, economists, business managers, industrialists, capitalists, and policy makers.

While more and more undergraduate engineering programs are moving toward a multi-disciplinary capstone experience, there remains a need for a suitable textbook.

This book presents a comprehensive optimization-based theory and framework that exploits the synergistic interactions and tradeoffs between process design and operational decisions that span different time scales.

Blending physics with the study of ancient Chinese science, technology, and culture is a unique and highly effective way to present the fundamentals of physics to non-science majors.

The characterization of cultural heritage objects becomes increasingly important for conservation, restoration, dating, and authentication purposes.

This book focuses on a forensics-style re-examination of several historical events.

There is only a very limited number of physical systems that can be exactly described in terms of simple analytic functions.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology, the application of the research-based nanoscale science, have changed significantly over the last three and a half decades.

Undergraduate and first-year graduate students engaging in engineering research need more than technical skills and tools to be successful.

The theory of electromagnetic beams is presented in a simple and physical way, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.

History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and experiences, and formed a collective for mutual support.

A brief overview of astronomy and cosmology is presented in five different ways, through the lenses of space, time, evolution, process, and structure.

This book presents classical relativistic mechanics and electrodynamics in the Feynman-Stueckelberg event-oriented framework formalized by Horwitz and Piron.

This case study explores actions of an account manager of an important maintenance agreement and a field service engineer, both newly assigned to resolve reliability issues with a set of gas turbines and a deteriorated relationship with their client.

Negotiation of an energy purchase and sales agreement between a host industrial complex and the owner of a co-located combined heat and power (CHP) facility is a complex process between two inter-dependent parties forming a close long-term relationship.

The book covers various topics in mechanical engineering, with a special attention to machine design, product assembly, technological aspects of production, mechatronics and production maintenance.

This book covers a variety of topics at the interface between biomedical engineering and manufacturing.

For all of the tremendous advances in medicine and treatment the world has seen in the modern era, the human body's ability to heal itself remains a (literally) vital and often overlooked facet of healthcare.

This book presents selected, peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Automation and Sustainable Development 2021 (AMAS2021), held in the city of Ha Long, Vietnam, from November 4 to 7, 2021.

This fifth edition of "e;Product Lifecycle Management"e; updates and adds to the successful fourth edition, the most frequently cited PLM publication.

This book presents the developments in engineering design application.

The book describes and explains the results of the collaborative project Generative Manufacturing of Optical, Thermal and Structural Components over the last three years.

This book provides readers with a hands-on guide to system architecture design and platform development strategies for electronic systems.

This book is about design.

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications.

This book contains the papers presented at the XXX International Congress INGEGRAF, "e;Digital Engineering, its application in Research, Development and Innovation"e;, held on 24-25 June 2021 in Valencia, Spain.

"e;Design Engineering for Industry 4.

This book is a study of the workings of dynamic loudspeakers and dynamically forced vibration.

The text introduces engineering to first-year undergraduate students using Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL).

This book highlights the mathematical depth and sophistication of techniques used in different areas of robotics.

This book covers several research outcomes of various fields and schools related to maritime operation, applications and materials science.

This book focuses on decision-making problems in engineering.

This book describes the development of an innovative solution for electrified roadway pavements based on engineered cementitious composites, which are exhibiting an extreme tensile strain capacity that is much higher than conventional concrete.

MATLAB and Simulink Crash Course for Engineers is a reader-friendly introductory guide to the features, functions, and applications of MATLAB and Simulink.

This book is for experienced luthiers and guitar designers in the industry, novice builders wishing to improve their designs, and guitar owners interested in knowing more about their instruments.

This book addresses the implications of the Industry 4.

This book reports on recent findings and applications relating to structure modeling and computation, design methodology, advanced manufacturing, mechanical behavior of materials, fluid mechanics, energy, and heat transfer.

This book addresses the emerging paradigm of data-driven engineering design.

This book introduces Mechanistic Data Science (MDS) as a structured methodology for combining data science tools with mathematical scientific principles (i.

This textbook provides the tools, techniques, and industry examples needed for the successful implementation of design of experiments (DoE) in engineering and manufacturing applications.

This book serves as an accelerated learning tool for students of Additive Manufacturing.

This book addresses current research trends and practice in industrial design.

This graduate textbook imparts the fundamentals of reliability and risk that can be connected mathematically and applied to problems in engineering and medical science and practice.

This book provides an insight into the design, modeling, control, and application of multiphase hybrid permanent magnet machines for electrified powertrains in electric and hybrid electric vehicles.

Three Dimensional Weaving is a nascent technology which has  triggered research interests around the world.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of ergonomics research and methods applied to the design, development and evaluation, of products, systems and services.

This book focuses on the challenges and potentials of open source and collaborative design approaches and strategies in the biomedical field.

This book explores, in a systematic way, both conventional and unconventional material shaping processes with various modes of hybridization in relation to theory, modelling and industrial potential.

Design Methodology for Future Products - Data Driven, Agile and Flexible provides an overview of the recent research in the field of design methodology from the point of view of the members of the scientific society for product development (WiGeP - Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fur Produktenwicklung e.

Inland Waterway (IW), or river vessels are in every respect different from the seagoing ships.