Technical design

This book brings together 46 peer-reviewed papers that are of interest to researchers wanting to know more about the latest topics and methods in the fields of the kinematics, control and design of robotic systems.

This book includes chapters based on the potential uses of polysaccharides such as fibers in food and non-food applications.

The work presented here is generally intended for engineers, educators at all levels, industrialists, managers, researchers and political representatives.

The "e;active image"e; refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of "e;actions"e; that images perform.

This book provides an overview of training and teaching methods, as well as education strategies, for Additive Manufacturing (AM) and its application in different business sectors.

This book deals with research in open challenges in Management Engineering in the 21st century, as well as selected opportunities and solutions to remedy them.

This book offers an essential introduction to the linear and non-linear behavior of solid materials, and to the concepts of deformation, displacement and stress, within the context of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.

This 2nd edition is a complete revision with an update of the methods that have been investigated recently and that are now fully accepted by the adhesion community.

This book addresses key design and computational issues related to radiators in hydronic heating installations.

This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development.

This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design.

This book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals.

This book describes machining technology from a wider perspective by considering it within the machining space.

This book is devoted to the development of the shape memory materials and their applications.

This book provides a review of the latest research on emotion in engineering, with a particular focus on design and manufacturing.

This book discusses concepts of good design from social perspectives grounded in anthropology, sociology and philosophy, the goal being to provide readers with an awareness of social issues to help them in their work as design professionals.

This book presents a domain of extreme industrial and scientific interest: the study of smart systems and structures.

This textbook describes the basic mechanical features of concrete and explains the main resistant mechanisms activated in the reinforced concrete structures and foundations when subjected to centred and eccentric axial force, bending moment, shear, torsion and prestressing.

This book highlights the aspects that need to be considered when designing distillation columns in practice.

This book details the design and technology of the on-line electric vehicle (OLEV) system and its enabling wireless power-transfer technology, the "e;shaped magnetic field in resonance"e; (SMFIR).

This textbook presents the core of recent advances in design theory and its implications for design methods and design organization.

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.

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This book describes a novel system for the simultaneous visual and tactile rendering of product shapes which allows designers to simultaneously touch and see new product shapes during the conceptual phase of product development.

This book offers valuable insights and provides effective tools useful for imagining, creating, and promoting novel and challenging developments in structural mechanics.

This co-edited volume compares Chinese and Western experiences of engineering, technology, and development.

This collection presents papers on the science, engineering, and technology of shape castings, with contributions from researchers worldwide.

This book begins with a brief historical perspective of the advent of rotating machinery in 20th century Solid Mechanics and the development of the discipline of the Strength of Materials.

This book presents a series of high performance product design (PD) and development best practices that can create or improve product development organization.

This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015.

  This volume offers a tool for High Performance Computing (HPC).

This book gathers papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2016), held on 14-16 September, 2016, in Catania, Italy.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics '16), that  was held in Aachen, Germany, October 26th-27th, 2016.

This book brings together investigations which combine theoretical and experimental results related to such systems as capsule micromechanisms, active micro catheters, nanotube vascular stents, mechanisms for micromilling, different compliant mechanisms including grippers and compliant systems with actuators and sensors, microrobots based on vibrations, tactile sensors, tooth brackets, compliant valves, and space reflectors.

This book addresses corrosion problems and their solutions at facilities in the oil refining and petrochemical industry, including cooling water and boiler feed water units.

This volume, the result of an ongoing bridge building effort among engineers and humanists, addresses a variety of philosophical, ethical, and policy issues emanating from engineering and technology.

The articles in this book review hybrid experimental-computational methods applied to soft tissues which have been developed by worldwide specialists in the field.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed and revised versions of papers from the Seventh International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'16), held at Northwestern University, Evanston (Chicago), USA, from 27-29 June 2016.

This book discusses a number of real-world applications of computational intelligence approaches.

This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of ergonomics research and methods applied to design, development, prototyping, as well as evaluation, training and manufacturing of products, systems and services.

This book focuses on a range of topics in design, such as universal design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and accessibility of technologies independently of people's age, economic situation, education, geographic location, culture and language.

This book deals with human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment.

This book presents a comprehensive mathematical approach for solving stochastic magnetic field problems.

As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, the futuristic tools of Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy continue to come to life.

This book offers a broad perspective on the field of cognitive engineering and neuroergonomics.

This book focuses on emerging issues in ergonomics, with a special emphasis on modeling, usability engineering, human computer interaction and innovative design concepts.

This book discusses the latest advances in research and development, design, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructures.

This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design.

This book provides novel insights into two fundamental subjects in solid mechanics: virtual work and shape change.