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Engineering, for much of the twentieth century, was mainly about artifacts and inventions. Now, it's increasingly about complex systems. As the airplane taxis to the gate, you access the Internet and check email with your PDA, linking the communication and transportation systems. At home, you recharge your plug-in hybrid vehicle, linking transportation to the electricity grid. Today's large-scale, highly complex sociotechnical systems converge, interact, and depend on each other in ways engineers of old could barely have imagined. As scale, scope, and complexity increase, engineers consider technical and social issues together in a highly integrated way as they design flexible, adaptable, robust systems that can be easily modified and reconfigured to satisfy changing requirements and new technological opportunities.Engineering Systems offers a comprehensive examination of such systems and the associated emerging field of study. Through scholarly discussion, concrete examples, and history, the authors consider the engineer's changing role, new ways to model and analyze these systems, the impacts on engineering education, and the future challenges of meeting human needs through the technologically enabled systems of today and tomorrow.

Engineering systems. --- Systems engineering. --- Engineering design --- Psychological aspects. --- Engineering systems --- System engineering --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Design and construction --- Design --- Industrial engineering --- System analysis --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- ENGINEERING/General --- ENGINEERING/Systems Science & Engineering --- Systems engineering --- Psychological aspects

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Engineering Applications of Residual Stress represents one of eight volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Uncasville, Connecticut, June 13-16, 2011.� The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes in Conventional and Multifunctional Materials, MEMS and Nanotechnology; Optical Measurements, Modeling and, Metrology; Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Thermomechanics and Infra-Red Imaging, and Engineering Applications of Residual Stress.

Mechanical alloying. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Materials Science --- Residual stresses --- Mechanics, Applied --- Engineering. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Structural mechanics. --- Engineering design. --- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. --- Structural Mechanics. --- Engineering Design. --- Mechanics, applied. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Design

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“The Automotive Body” consists of two volumes. The first volume produces the needful cultural background on the body; it describes the body and its components in use on most kinds of cars and industrial vehicles: the quantity of drawings that are presented allows the reader to familiarize with the design features and to understand functions, design motivations and fabrication feasibility, in view of the existing production processes. The second volume addresses the body system engineer and has the objective to lead him to the specification definition used to finalize detail design and production by the car manufacturer or the supply chain. The processing of these specifications, made by mathematical models of different complexity, starts always from the presentations of the needs of the customer using the vehicle and from the large number of rules imposed by laws and customs. The two volumes are completed by references, list of symbols adopted and subjects index. These two books about the vehicle body may be added to those about the chassis and are part of a series sponsored by ATA (the Italian automotive engineers association) on the subject of automotive engineering; they follow the first book, published in 2005 in Italian only, about automotive transmission. They cover automotive engineering from every aspect and are the result of a five-year collaboration between the Polytechnical University of Turin and the University of Naples on automotive engineering.

Automobiles -- Parts -- Design. --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Automotive Engineering --- Automobiles --- Parts --- Design. --- Autos (Automobiles) --- Cars (Automobiles) --- Gasoline automobiles --- Motorcars (Automobiles) --- Engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Automotive engineering. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Engineering Design. --- Motor vehicles --- Transportation, Automotive --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Design --- Bodies --- Design and construction.

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This the fourth volume of five from the 28th IMAC on Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, 2010, brings together 29 chapters on the Dynamics of Civil Structures. It presents early findings from experimental and computational investigations of Civil Structures, including studies such as Characterization of a Strongly Nonlinear Laboratory Benchmark System, A Non-destructive Technique for the Health Monitoring of Tie-rods in Ancient Buildings, Estimating Effective Prestress Force on Grouted Tendon by Impact Responses, Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Load Estimation Using Small-scale Testing, and Prediction of Prestress Force on Grouted Tendon by Experimental Modal Analysis.

Structural dynamics. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Structural dynamics --- Engineering. --- Structural mechanics. --- Engineering design. --- Civil engineering. --- Structural Mechanics. --- Civil Engineering. --- Engineering Design. --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Public works --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Design

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What is ‘design creativity’? It is impossible to answer this question without considering why human beings can – and do – ‘design’. Design creativity is instrumental in not only addressing social problems faced across the world,  but also evoking an innate appreciation for beauty and a sense of personal contentment. Design Creativity 2010 comprises advanced research findings on design creativity and perspectives on future directions of design creativity research. The papers included were presented and discussed at the first ICDC (International Conference on Design Creativity), which was held at Kobe, Japan, in 2010. Design Creativity 2010 encourages readers to enhance and expand their activities in the field of design creativity.

Computer aided design. --- Design and construction. --- Engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Design --- Creative ability --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Design. --- Engineering Design. --- Design, general. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- CAD (Computer-aided design) --- Computer-assisted design --- Computer-aided engineering --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- CAE --- Data processing