Design Books

New and Published Books

1. Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2013

   Proceedings of the international conference on Ergonomics & Human Factors 2013, Cambridge, UK, 15-18 April 2013

   Edited by Martin Anderson

   The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of scientific knowledge to improve people’s interaction with products, systems and environments - has been illustrated for 27 years by the books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series.This book presents the proceedings of the...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
2. Collaborative Design Management

   By Stephen Emmitt, Kirti Ruikar

   The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role ...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Direct Gear Design

   By Alexander L. Kapelevich

   Over the last several decades, gearing development has focused on improvements in materials, manufacturing technology and tooling, thermal treatment, and coatings and lubricants. In contrast, gear design methods have remained frozen in time, as the vast majority of gears are designed with standard...

   Published March 21st 2013 by CRC Press
4. Meshless Methods and Their Numerical Properties

   By Hua Li, Shantanu S. Mulay

   Meshless, or meshfree methods, which overcome many of the limitations of the finite element method, have achieved significant progress in numerical computations of a wide range of engineering problems. A comprehensive introduction to meshless methods, Meshless Methods and Their Numerical Properties...

   Published February 21st 2013 by CRC Press
5. Rail Human Factors

   Supporting reliability, safety and cost reduction

   Edited by Nastaran Dadashi, Anita Scott, John R Wilson, Ann Mills

   The rail human factors/ergonomics community has grown quickly and extensively, and there is much increased recognition of the vital importance of ergonomics/human factors by rail infrastructure owners, rail operating companies, system developers, regulators and national and trans-national...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
6. Linear Electric Machines, Drives, and MAGLEVs Handbook

   By Ion Boldea

   Based on author Ion Boldea’s 40 years of experience and the latest research, Linear Electric Machines, Drives, and Maglevs Handbook provides a practical and comprehensive resource on the steady improvement in this field. The book presents in-depth reviews of basic concepts and detailed explorations...

   Published February 6th 2013 by CRC Press
7. Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development

   Edited by Harald Mieg, Klaus Töpfer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

   Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Mechanics of Machinery

   By Mahmoud A. Mostafa

   Mechanics of Machinery describes the analysis of machines, covering both the graphical and analytical methods for examining the kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms with low and high pairs. This text, developed and updated from a version published in 1973, includes analytical analysis for all...

   Published November 6th 2012 by CRC Press
9. Design Engineer's Handbook

   By Keith L. Richards

   Student design engineers often require a "cookbook" approach to solving certain problems in mechanical engineering. With this focus on providing simplified information that is easy to retrieve, retired mechanical design engineer Keith L. Richards has written Design Engineer’s Handbook. This book...

   Published October 1st 2012 by CRC Press
10. Introduction to Thermodynamics of Mechanical Fatigue

    By Michael M. Khonsari, Mehdi Amiri

    Fatigue is probabilistic in nature and involves a complex spectrum of loading history with variable amplitudes and frequencies. Yet most available fatigue failure prediction methods are empirical and concentrate on very specific types of loading. Taking a different approach, Introduction to...

    Published September 16th 2012 by CRC Press