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To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

Henry Petroski

History; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Technical design; Civil engineering, surveying & building; Structural engineering

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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Petroski, known... [more]

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Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Technical design

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Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design.... [more]

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An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering

An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering

Christopher D. Wickens, John D. Lee, Sallie Gordon, Yili D. Liu

Occupational & industrial psychology; Occupational & industrial health & safety; Mathematics & Sciences; Technical design; Production engineering

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This extremely accessible undergraduate human factors text teaches current research through active researchers and extensive... [more]

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The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science

The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science

Andrew Pickering

Philosophy; Philosophy of science; Impact of science & technology on society; Ergonomics

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This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of... [more]

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Industrial and Specialty Papers, Volume 3, Applications

Industrial and Specialty Papers, Volume 3, Applications

Dale S. Davis, Robert H. Mosher

Technical design; Materials science

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Contents - 1. New Product Development-An Overview- Introduction; The Opportunities New Products Create; The Problems New Products... [more]

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Industrial and Specialty Papers, Volume 2, Manufacture

Industrial and Specialty Papers, Volume 2, Manufacture

Dale S. Davis, Robert H. Mosher

Technical design; Materials science

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Contents - 1. Paper Converting Machinery - L. W. Egan - Unroll Units - Guides and Tension Devices - Coaters - Paper Machine... [more]

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Full Product Transparency

Full Product Transparency

Ramon Arratia

Product design; Corporate governance & responsibilities; Technical design

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This book outlines a path towards a more practical era for 'corporate responsibility', where companies make real environmental... [more]

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Systems Engineering and Safety: Building the Bridge

Systems Engineering and Safety: Building the Bridge

Peter J. Glismann

Product design; Occupational & industrial health & safety; Engineering: general; Technical design; Automatic control engineering

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Systems engineering principles are currently being applied to system safety best practices in several industries, as well... [more]

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The TAB Guide to DIY Welding: Hands-on Projects for Hobbyists, Handymen, and Artists

The TAB Guide to DIY Welding: Hands-on Projects for Hobbyists, Handymen,...

Jackson Morley

Product design; Engineering: general; Technical design; Metals technology & metallurgy; Mechanical engineering; Welding; Hobbies; DIY: general

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The perfect getting-started guide for hobbyists and artists who want to learn to work with metal. [more]

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Structural Design: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Designing Structures

Structural Design: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Designing Structures...

J. Haynes, Len Weekes

Technical design; Structural engineering

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This book provides an introduction to structural design for civil engineering students on undergraduate courses. [more]

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Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative Professionals

Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for...

Daniel M. Brown

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Business communication & presentation; Technical design; Mechanical engineering & materials; Mechanical engineering; Advice on careers & achieving success; Educational: Design & technology

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WHAT IS THE ONE THING not taught in design school, but is an essential survival skill for practicing designers? Working with... [more]

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Fractional Fields and Applications

Fractional Fields and Applications

Jacques Istas, Serge Cohen

Cybernetics & systems theory; Probability & statistics; Statistical physics; Technical design

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This book focuses mainly on fractional Brownian fields and their extensions. It has been used to teach graduate students at... [more]

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Robust Structural Design Against Self-Excited Vibrations

Robust Structural Design Against Self-Excited Vibrations

Gottfried Spelsberg-Korspeter

Technical design; Dynamics & vibration

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This book studies methods for a robust design of rotors against self-excited vibrations. The occurrence of self-excited vibrations... [more]

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From Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-agent Systems

From Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-agent Systems

Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert

Technical design; Industrial quality control; Reliability engineering; Automatic control engineering; Systems analysis & design; Artificial intelligence

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Faults are a concern for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) designers, especially if the MAS are built for industrial or military use... [more]

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Removing the Barriers to Efficient Manufacturing: Real-World Applications of Lean Productivity

Removing the Barriers to Efficient Manufacturing: Real-World Applications...

Daniel L. Ferguson

Business & management; Management of specific areas; Technical design

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W. Edwards Deming's central premise was that improvements in product quality would increase productivity, improve competitive... [more]

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Engineering Design, Planning, and Management

Engineering Design, Planning, and Management

Hugh Jack

Technology, Engineering & Agriculture; Technical design

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Covers engineering design methodology with an approach, concise discussions, and a visual format. This book covers the product... [more]

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The Berlin Design Guide

The Berlin Design Guide

Kristina Leipold, Viviane Stappmanns

Product design; Technical design

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The guidebook to Germany's capital of creativity. As a comprehensive address book and insider's guide to the city's creative... [more]

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Re-engineering Manufacturing for Sustainability

Re-engineering Manufacturing for Sustainability

Andrew Y. C. Nee, Bin Song, Ser Yong Lim, Soh-Khim Ong

Production & quality control management; Sustainability; Technical design; Production engineering

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This edited volume presents the proceedings of the 20th CIRP LCE Conference, which cover various areas in life cycle engineering... [more]

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Work Domain Analysis: Concepts, Guidelines, and Cases

Work Domain Analysis: Concepts, Guidelines, and Cases

Neelam Naikar

Production & quality control management; Occupational & industrial health & safety; Ergonomics

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In complex sociotechnical systems such as military, health care, and nuclear power systems, poor performance or errors resulting... [more]

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Finite Element Mesh Generation

Finite Element Mesh Generation

Daniel Lo

Numerical analysis; Technical design; Structural engineering

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A concise and comprehensive guide to the application of finite element mesh generation over 2D domains, curved surfaces and... [more]

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Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication for Line and Point Contacts: Asymptotic and Numerical Approaches

Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication for Line and Point Contacts: Asymptotic and...

Ilya I. Kudish

Fluid mechanics; Technical design; Mechanical engineering; Tribology (friction & lubrication)

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Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication for Line and Point Contacts: Asymptotic and Numerical Approaches describes a coherent asymptotic... [more]

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Creo Parametric 2.0

Creo Parametric 2.0

Louis Gary Lamit

Technical design; Integrated software packages; Computer-aided design (CAD)

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Helps you design in direct consultation with PTC to go hand in hand with the release of Creo(t) Elements/Pro software, formerly... [more]

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Behavioural Adaptation and Road Safety: Theory, Evidence, and Action

Behavioural Adaptation and Road Safety: Theory, Evidence, and Action

Christina Rudin-Brown, Samantha Jamson

Transport planning & policy; Ergonomics

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Despite being an accepted construct in traffic and transport psychology, the precise nature of behavioural adaptation, including... [more]

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Twelve Lectures on Structural Dynamics

Twelve Lectures on Structural Dynamics

Andre Preumont

Classical mechanics; Technical design; Dynamics & vibration; Structural engineering

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This book deals with the dynamics of discrete and continuous mechanical systems; seismic excitation; random vibration (including... [more]

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New Advances in Gastrointestinal Motility Research

New Advances in Gastrointestinal Motility Research

A. J. Pullan, G. Farrugia, L. K. Cheng

Physiology; Gastroenterology; Biomedical engineering; Technical design

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This book covers gastrointestinal cellular activity and structure; measuring, analyzing and visualizing high-resolution extra-cellular... [more]

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