Advanced Engineering Design: An Integrated Approach (Woodhead Publishing in Mechanical Engineering) - Hardcover

Efren M. Benavides

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857090933 ISBN 13: 9780857090935

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This book provides engineers and students with a general framework focusing on the processes of designing new engineering products. The procedures covered by the framework lead the reader to the best trade-offs to ensure maximum satisfaction of the customers needs, meeting the lowest cost expectations, ensuring the lowest environmental impact and maximising profits and best positioning in the marketplace. Chapters discuss the engineering tools that are compatible with these goals and sustainable activity.

Key features: the design process is defined in terms of operators acting over the information space; the information content is defined as a difference of entropies; creation and destruction of entropy are defined as procedures of the design process.

Contents: The design process; Information, entropy, and its relationship to design; Axiomatic design; Metric design; Reliability-based design; Entropy-based design.

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About the Author

Dr. Efren M. Benavides is a lecturer at the School of Aeronautics (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) in mechanical design, reciprocating engines and propulsion systems with research work in the field of aeronautics. These research fields include several topics related with engineering design such as axial compressors, reciprocating engines, thermoacoustics, heat transfer and reliability. Benavides has written several articles about these subjects in a variety of scholarly journals and scientific literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857090933
• ISBN 13: 9780857090935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282