Product Research: The Art and Science Behind Successful Product Launches

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This book is a collection of research papers to be presented at the GM R&D India Science Lab workshop on Art and Science of Product Development held at Bangalore, India. Leading researchers from around the world, and from within GM, present some of their latest research and experience around methodologies and analytics that we believe, are very critical to any product development activity. This book has articles in four major pillars of product development research: a, uncertainty modeling and information integration; b, role of behavioral research in understanding customer requirements and designing products; c, advanced analytical approaches for identifying voice of the customer; and d, human centered decision making and its role in product development.

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Industrial Sprays and Atomization

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An extensive critical compilation of the wide range of manufacturing processes that involve the application of spray technology, this book covers design of atomizers as well as the performance of plant and their corresponding spray systems. The needs of practising engineers from different disciplines: project managers, and works, maintenance and design engineers are catered for. Of interest to researchers in the field of liquid sprays, the book includes outlines of the contemporary and possible future research and challenges in the different fields of application and deals with:

• sprays and their production;

• sprays in industrial production processes;

• processes involving vaporisation and cooling or cleaning of gases;

• spray-surface impact processes;

• fuel sprays for fixed plant;

• spraying of hot surfaces for steel making and other metals;

• spraying of molten metals.

Guidance is given for the analysis and interpretation of experimental data obtained using different measurement techniques.

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IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications) Review

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This collection presents 49 contributions by engineers, architects, biologists, and applied mathematicians interested in deployable structures. Aerospace structures are currently at the leading edge, and this is reflected by a larger number of contributions covering the full spectrum of concepts, simulations, testing, and working systems.

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Design Process Improvement: A review of current practice

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There is always room for improvement in design. Maybe there is need for a better product, or for a better, more effective and economic, design process-the late delivery of new products has been shown to be the single largest contributor to the loss of company profits in the UK. Our own experience of working with automotive, aerospace and healthcare companies has shown that effective communication, management of change and process planning are essential ingredients for an effective product development process. This book aims to develop an understanding of these issues as a means to facilitate design process improvement. Part I contains a series of review articles written by a team of international experts on models of design, perspectives on design, design practice and design management. Part II provides an introduction to the wealth of academic research on these topics by presenting the activities of research centres from around the world. It is for: business leaders who want to understand the role of design management as a driver for commercial success; design managers who want to improve their company design procedures; designers who want to know how to design more efficiently; researchers who want to explore the field of design process improvement. An up-to-date source of information on design process improvement may be found at: http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/designprocessbook

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Intellectual Property: A Guide for Engineers

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Intellectual property, the product of creative and hard working people, needs to be protected in ways that allow creative people to benefit from their efforts. Engineers create and use intellectual property and manage knowledge to their own benefit, as well as to the benefit of their company and society at large. To help engineers understand intellectual property issues, the Committee on Issues Identification, of the Council on Public Affairs of ASME International, collaborated with the Committee on Public Information, of the Section of Intellectual Property Law, of the American Bar Association (ABA), to create an intellectual property guide for engineers. This guide is designed to provide a basic understanding of intellectual property issues, specifically those related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

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Piezoelectric-Based Vibration Control: From Macro to Micro/Nano Scale Systems

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“Piezoelectric-Based Vibration-control Systems: Applications in Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators” covers: Fundamental concepts in smart (active) materials including piezoelectric and piezoceramics, magnetostrictive, shape-memory materials, and electro/magneto-rheological fluids; Physical principles and constitutive models of piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric sensors and actuators; Fundamental concepts in mechanical vibration analysis and control with emphasis on distributed-parameters and vibration-control systems; and Recent advances in piezoelectric-based microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems design and implementation.

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Unified Strength Theory and Its Applications

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This book provides a new Unified Strength Theory and describes its applications. The Unified Strength Theory is a system of yield and failure criteria of materials under complex stresses. It covers the entire range of convex failure criteria, from lower bound (Tresca yield criteria and Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria) to upper bound (twin-shear failure criteria). It also includes the non-convex yield and non-convex failure criteria. A series of new failure criteria and previous failure and yield criteria can be deduced from the Unified Strength Theory. The work presented in this book is unprecedented in the field of strength theory. It is useful for students in understanding the strength theory, for engineers to correctly use it and for researchers to choose an appropriate failure criteria in studying the strenth of materials and structures. An experimental verification, engineering applications, a detailed historical review and more than 1000 references are provided.

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