Design Engineering Manual

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Mike Tooley
Elsevier, Oct 30, 2009 - Technology & Engineering - 610 pages
Design Engineering Manual offers a practical guide to the key principles of design engineering. It features a compilation of extracts from several books within the range of Design Engineering books in the Elsevier collection. The book is organized into 11 sections. Beginning with a review of the processes of product development and design, the book goes on to describe systematic ways of choosing materials and processes. It details the properties of modern metallic alloys including commercial steels, cast irons, superalloys, titanium alloys, structural intermetallic compounds, and aluminum alloys. The book explains the human/system interface; procedures to assess the risks associated with job and task characteristics; and environmental factors that may be encountered at work and affect behavior. Product liability and safety rules are discussed. The final section on design techniques introduces the design process from an inventors perspective to a more formal model called total design. It also deals with the behavior of plastics that influence the application of practical and complex engineering equations and analysis in the design of products.
  • Provides a single-source of critical information to the design engineer, saving time and therefore money on a particular design project
  • Presents both the fundamentals and advanced topics and also the latest information in key aspects of the design process
  • Examines all aspects of the design process in one concise and accessible volume
 

Contents

Section Two The design process
17
Section Three Product development
101
Section Four Design and materials
171
Section Five New materials
205
Section Six Design and ergonomics
231
Section Seven Reliability and maintainability
293
Section Eight Product safety and legal liability
369
electronics
389
mechanics
453
plastics
481
Index
599
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Mike Tooley is a technical author and consultant. He was formerly Vice Principal at Brooklands College in Surrey, England, where he was responsible for the delivery of learning to over 10,000 Further and Higher Education students increasingly by flexible, open and on-line distance learning. Mike is the well-known author of several popular engineering and related text books, including widely adopted course texts for BTEC, GCE A-level and GCSE qualifications in Engineering. Mike's hobbies include astronomy, amateur radio, aviation, computing and electronic circuit design and construction.