Advanced Engineering Design: An Integrated Approach - Tapa dura

"The author has succeeded with this new book in skillfully collating the different theories and current thinking in engineering design processes." --Materials World, Kevin Edwards FIMMM

Summary: 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 customer's 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. About the author: Prof. Efrén M. Benavides is a lecturer at the School of Aeronautics (Universidad Politécnica 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. Contents: The design process; Information, entropy and its relationship to design; Axiomatic design; Metric design; Reliability-based design; Entropy-based design; Appendix