Case Studies in Engineering Design

Cliff Matthews

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780340691359
• eBook ISBN: 9780080500768
• Topic: Tecnologia e ingegneria
• Subtopic: Ingegneria industriale

A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies.Case Studies in Engineering Design provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible case studies which are representative of situations engineers face in professional life, and which incorporate a range of engineering disciplines. Different methodologies of approaching engineering design are identified and explained prior to their application in the case studies. The case studies have been chosen from real-life engineering design projects and aim to expose students to a wide variety of design activities and situations, including those that have incomplete, or imperfect, information. This book encourages the student to be innovative, to try new ideas, whilst not losing sight of sound and well-proven engineering practice. - A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design. - Exposes readers to wide variety of design activities and situations. - Encourages exploration of new ideas using sound and well-proven engineering practice.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Case study keywords
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: What is this book about?
• Chapter 2: Methodology
• Chapter 3: Crane sheave – basic design principles
• Chapter 4: Crane sheave – early failures
• Chapter 5: Crane sheave – simple costing
• Chapter 6: Casting machine – basic design
• Chapter 7: The Rainbow sculpture – innovation in design
• Chapter 8: The Inshallah condenser – ISO 9000 application
• Chapter 9: Screwed fasteners – standardisation in design
• Chapter 10: Fasteners and couplings – better design
• Chapter 11: Piranha – technology transfer and project structure
• Chapter 12: Mechanical seals – improving design reliability
• Chapter 13: Aircraft flight control – function and ergonomics
• Chapter 14: Power boilers – remnant life assessment
• Chapter 15: The ‘Schloss Adler’ railway – design safety
• Chapter 16: Electric vehicles – design for plastics
• Chapter 17: Motorcycles – design and project costing
• Chapter 18: Flue gas desulphurisation – total design
• Chapter 19: The fast yacht Dying Swan – complex failure
• Conclusion
• The final word
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index