Engineering Design (PDF Download)

Engineering Design (PDF Download)
A systematic approach
Third Edition

Engineering Design (PDF Download)By Springer

The first German edition of Konstruktionslehre was published in 1977. The first English edition entitled Engineering Design was published in 1984 and was a full translation of the German text. Both the German and the English editions of the book rapidly became established as important references on systematic engineering design in industry, research and education. International interest in engineering design grew rapidly during the 1980s and many developments took place. To keep up-to-date with the changes, a second German edition was published in 1986. It was too soon after the publication of the first English edition to consider a second edition. However, since the translation was being extensively used to support engineering design teaching, as lightly a bridged student edition entitled Engineering Design–A Systematic Approach was published in 1988.

When preparing the student edition, the opportunity was taken to review the translation and the contents of the first edition. No changes in terminology were thought necessary and the contents were the same as the first English edition except for the removal of two chapters. The first chapter to be removed was the short chapter on detail design. It must be emphasised that this does not mean that detail design is considered unimportant or lacking in intellectual challenge. Quite the reverse is true. Detail design is far too broad and complex as subject to be covered in a general text. There are many excellent books covering the detail design of specific technical systems and machine elements. For these reasons, the German editions did not discuss technical aspects of detail design, but only dealt with the preparation of production documents and the numbering techniques required to keep track of them. The second chapter to be removed dealt with computer support for design, including CAD. Again, this chapter was clearly not removed because the topic is unimportant. Computer support systems are used universally and develop rapidly. Many specialist texts are available. In 1993 an updated and extended third German edition of Konstruktionslehre was published. It was considered timely to produce a second English edition to bring the translation into step with the latest thinking. The new layout of the German edition was incorporated, along with the important discussions of psychology and recycling. The new chapters on design for quality and design for minimum cost were included, but, for the reasons given above, the chapters on detail design and computer support were again omitted.

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