Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Devices

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The increasing demand for high-density highly reliable magnetic recording requires a fundamental understanding of the tribology and mechanics of the interface between the magnetic head and the recording medium. This book offers a systematic compilation of current knowledge of tribology and mechanics as applied to magnetic storage devices. It treats all important practical aspects, including surface roughness, friction, interface temperatures, wear, lubrication, lubricants, and surface finishing. It incorporates ample experimental data and relevant properties of materials and surfaces, making the book invaluable for engineers and scientists working in the field. Intended for practicing engineers who need to solve reliability or tribology problems quickly, the book will also be useful for research workers, academic engineers, and graduate students in tribology and mechanics. Most of the theoretical results presented are broadly applicable in many areas of mechanical engineering. A chapter on microtribology of magnetic storage devices has been added in this second edition of the book.

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Tribology Of Mechanical Systems: A Guide to Present and Future Technologies

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This comprehensive work was written by an international team of experts and discusses the achievements as well as future potential of tribology. It is expected that the primary technological advancements in the 21st century will address environmental and energy concerns, health care, precision, reliability, and miniaturization. Tribology will play an important role in many of these advancements. This volume covers various types of lubricants and their applications, including engines, gears, and the manufacturing process, artificial joints, biodegradable oils, carbon films, ceramics, polymers and composites, thermal factors, micro and nanotribology, condition monitoring, surface analysis, creating a virtual tribology institute and teaching tribology. This book is a valuable resource for industry professionals as well as academics and researchers in the field.

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From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) Review

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IFIP Working Group 5.2 has organized a series of workshops extending the concept of intelligent CAD to the concept of "knowledge intensive engineering". The concept advocates that intensive life-cycle knowledge regarding products and design processes must be incorporated in the center of the CAD architecture. It focuses on the systematization and sharing of knowledge across the life-cycle stages and organizational boundaries.
From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering comprises the Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Parma, Italy in May 2000. This workshop looked at the evolution of knowledge intensive design for the product life cycle moving towards knowledge intensive engineering.
The 18 selected papers present an overview of the state-of-the-art in knowledge intensive engineering, discussing theoretical aspects and also practical systems and experiences gained in this area. An invited speaker paper is also included, discussing the role of knowledge in product and process innovation and technology for processing semantic knowledge.
Main issues discussed in the book are:

• Architectures for knowledge intensive CAD;
• Tools for knowledge intensive CAD;
• Methodologies for knowledge intensive CAD;
• Implementation of knowledge intensive CAD;
• Applications of knowledge intensive CAD;
• Evolution of knowledge intensive design for the life-cycle;
• Formal methods.

The volume is essential reading for researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, systems developers of advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing systems, and engineers involved in industrial applications.

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Transport Phenomena in Porous Media III

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Fluid and flow problems in porous media have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from varying disciplines, such as chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, geothermal physics and food science. There has been a increasing interest in heat and fluid flows through porous media, making this book a timely and appropriate resource.

Each chapter is systematically detailed to be easily grasped by a research worker with basic knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and computational and experimental methods. At the same time, the readers will be informed of the most recent research literature in the field, giving it dual usage as both a post-grad text book and professional reference.

Written by the recent directors of the NATO Advanced Study Institute session on 'Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media' (June 2003), this book is a timely and essential reference for scientists and engineers within a variety of fields.

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The Future of Product Development: Proceedings of the 17th CIRP Design Conference

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These proceedings represent trends in Product Development concerning industrial vendors and scientific research aspects. Coverage includes the following topics are covered: Design Theory, Product Design, Requirements, Collaborative Engineering, Complex Design, Mechatronics, Reverse Engineering, Virtual Prototyping, CAE, KBE and PLM. The papers presented in this book show that answers can only be composed out of a variety of solutions where psychological, economical and technical research results are taken into account.

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Fatigue under Thermal and Mechanical Loading: Mechanisms, Mechanics and Modelling

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This volume contains 50 contributions presented at the symposium `Fatigue under Thermal and Mechanical Loading'. The symposium addressed the mechanisms, mechanics and modelling of thermal and thermal-mechanical load effects on conventional and advanced structural materials. The proceedings provide an update of the research efforts in thermal and thermal-mechanical fatigue. The papers cover a wide range of materials, including metallic alloys from steels to advanced superalloy single crystals, ceramics as well as composites. Topics encompass recent developments in specimen and component testing techniques, mechanisms and mechanics of inelastic deformation, crack initiation and crack growth, as well as damage modelling for life-time prediction. The book is of interest to materials scientists, mechanical engineers and design engineers involved in the design of components for use at high temperatures.

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Computational Kinematics (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

Computational Kinematics (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications) Review

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This volume provides a state of the art account of developments in computational kinematics. Included are both numerical computations and symbolic manipulations. The volume reports on trends and progress in a broad class of problems, and the information is collated logically into six parts describing the main themes:
(i) kinematic algorithms, whereby general kinematic problems are discussed in light of their solution algorithms;
(ii) redundant manipulators;
(iii) kinematic and dynamic control in which the link between kinematics and the disciplines of dynamics and control is highlighted;
(iv) parallel manipulators;
(v) motion planning, touching on computational geometry;
(vi) kinematics of mechanisms describing the closed kinematic chains.
The volume contains a representative sample of the most modern techniques available for kinematics problems, including some novel techniques described for the first time in a book. It will be of interest to researchers, graduate students and practising engineers engaged in work relating to kinematics, robotics, machine design and computer science.

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