Technical design

Completely revised and updated, Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition presents a case study of one university's policies and practices with regard to the procurement, use, storage and disposal of HAZMAT in the context of a changing internal structure and regulatory environment.

Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices.

Each of the four volumes in the Handbook of Safety and Health for the Service Industry demonstrates how to tackle particular safety and health dangers in sub sectors of the service industry.

This book looks at how to design complex products that have many components with intricate relationships and requirements.

Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot system that works with people in everyday environments.

In an approach that combines coverage of safety and human error into a single volume, Safety and Human Error in Engineering Systems eliminates the need to consult many different and diverse sources for those who need information about both topics.

This full-color volume proposes an innovative methodology that uses the functional aspects of nature to inspire improvements in building design and form, encouraging designers to apply biomimetic principles to architectural processes.

A collaboration between leading scientists, practitioners, and researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, this book is a comprehensive resource describing Quality of Life technologies and their development, evaluation, adoption, and commercialization.

As the baby boom generation ages, it is crucial that designers understand all they can about bringing this group, as well as all others, design that will offer function, aesthetics, and quality of life.

Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work examines how developers actually perform software design in their day-to-day work.

Currently, the techniques of operation research are widely used in every aspect of day-to-day life.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Industry 4.

The need exists in the private sector and government manufacturing sites to reduce product development time, production lead times, inventory, and non-value added activities.

Recently, many new technologies have been developed for engineers to reduce the time required to design and manufacture products in response to rapidly fluctuating market demands.

Crandall's Power Supply Testing Handbook comes into the marketplace at an optimum time.

This is a fourth edition of a work first published in 1983.

The importance of proper geometric dimensioning and tolerancing as a means of expressing the designer's functional intent and controlling the inevitable geometric and dimensional variations of mechanical parts and assemblies, is becoming well recognized.

In order to compete in the current commercial environment companies must produce greater product variety, at lower cost, all within a reduced product life cycle.

Sculptured Surface Machining (SSM) plays a vital role in the process of bringing new products to the market place.

Direct Engineering (DE) is the creation of a product development cycle into a single, unified process.

At first glance, a book on "e;Design by Composition for Rapid Prototyping"e; may seem out of place in a series on Robotics.

Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises presents a unified and systematic treatment of manufacturing enterprises.

MRP II explores the principles of MRP II systems, and how the manufacturer can utilize and institute them effectively for maximum profit.

Within the past twenty years, the field of robotics has been finding many areas of applications ranging from space to underwater explo- rations.

Feedback Control Systems: A Fast Track Guide for Scientists and Engineers is an essential reference tool for: Electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineers who are developing or improving products, with a need to use feedback control systems.

Darwin2K: An Evolutionary Approach to Automated Design for Robotics is an essential reference tool for researchers, professionals, and students involved in robot design or in evolutionary synthesis, design, and optimization.

In the area of computer-integrated manufacturing, concurrent engineering is recognized as the manufacturing philosophy for the next decade.

The 1980s have witnessed a tremendous growth in the field of computer- integrated manufacturing systems.

In Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines the author covers two-dimensional analysis, emphasizing the use of finite elements to perform the most common calculations required of machine designers and analysts.

method enables readers to: *efficiently design higher-quality, lower cost objects with less metal requirements, vibration and noise, and with lower dynamic loads and energy consumption *determine optimal solutions, regardless of the number of criteria involved, and to identify relationships among different criteria and between criteria and design variables *accurately account for discrepancies between theoretical and actual characteristics, using a special set of adequacy criteria *determine optimal design variables for complex finite element models In addition, the book helps readers: *enhance the potential of the PSI method with theoretical investigations and algorithms for approximating the feasible solutions set and Pareto optimal set *facilitate proficient problem-solving by incorporating recently obtained results from the theory of uniformly distributed sequences *evaluate design procedures by observing examples ranging from machine tools and agricultural equipment to automobiles and aviation This practical, in-depth treatment of multicriteria optimization and engineering is essential for engineers and designers working in research and development of manufacturing machines, mechanisms and structures.

Both academia and the real world are showing a vastly increased interest in international logistics.

The current marketplace is undergoing an accelerated pace of change that challenges corporations to innovate new techniques to respond rapidly to an ever-changing environment.

The field of "e;microelectromechanical systems,"e; or "e;MEMS,"e; has gradually evolved from a "e;discipline"e; populated by a small group of researchers to an "e;enabling technology"e; supporting a variety of products in such diverse areas as mechanical and inertial sensors, optical projection displays, telecommunications equipment, and biology and medicine.

This work focuses on the fundamentals of MMCs for engineers and designers.

This volume originates from two workshops, both focusing on themes that are reflected in the title of the volume.

This unique textbook takes the student from the initial steps in modeling a dynamic system through development of the mathematical models needed for feedback control.

Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design: Methods & Applications highlights recent advances that have been made to support product family and product platform design along with successful applications in industry.

Applied Hydraulic Transients, 3rd Edition covers hydraulic transients in a comprehensive and systematic manner from introduction to advanced level and presents various methods of analysis for computer solution.

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Topics in Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the fourth volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book examines the paradigm of the engineering design process.

This work addresses the topic of optical networks cross-layer design with a focus on physical-layer-impairment-aware design.

Design happens everywhere, whether in animate objects (e.

Automated Configuration has long been the subject of intensive research, especially in Artificial Intelligence.

The author's approach is one of continuum models of the aerodynamic flow interacting with a flexible structure whose behavior is governed by partial differential equations.

This is the first volume of three, devoted to Mechanics.

Topics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1, Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together 45 contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This volume consists of papers presented at the Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering Workshop II held in Erice, Italy in September 2010 at the International School of Mathematics "e;Guido Stampacchia"e;.

High Performance Marine Vessels (HPMVs) range from the Fast Ferries to the latest high speed Navy Craft, including competition power boats and hydroplanes, hydrofoils, hovercraft, catamarans and other multi-hull craft.

Engineering Applications of Residual Stress represents one of eight volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Uncasville, Connecticut, June 13-16, 2011.