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Reverse engineering : mechanisms, structures, systems & materials /

"A comprehensive, fresh, and deservedly heightened look at reverse engineering as a legitimate approach to the learning and understanding to be gained from a design - a textbook for engineering students (taking required Intro to Engineering & Design and required Senior Design courses - espe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Messler, Robert W., Jr., 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A. Preface
  • B. Dedication
  • C. About the author
  • D. Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Human beings are a naturally curious species
  • Taking things apart to learn
  • Learning from experience
  • The fundamental approaches of engineering
  • The critical role of dissection
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 2. The status and role of reverse engineering
  • The status of reverse engineering in references
  • Reverse engineering defined
  • Motivations for reverse engineering
  • Engineering design and the engineering design process
  • Types of design
  • Uses for and benefits and risks of reverse engineering
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 3. History of reverse engineering
  • The likely emergence of reverse engineering
  • Reverse engineering in the middle ages
  • Reverse engineering during the industrial revolution
  • Reverse engineering during world war ii
  • Reverse engineering in the cold war and beyond
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Recommended readings
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 4. The teardown process
  • The purpose of teardown
  • Observation
  • Measurement
  • Experimentation
  • Other specific forms of teardown
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 5. Methods of product teardown
  • The product teardown process revisited
  • The general procedure for the teardown process
  • Teardown analysis or value analysis teardown
  • The subtract-and-operate procedure
  • Force flow diagrams (or energy flow field design)
  • Functional models
  • Illustrative example of a product teardown
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 6. Failure analysis and forensic engineering
  • Introduction to failure analysis
  • Sources of failures in mechanical systems
  • Mechanisms of failure in materials
  • The general procedure for conducting a failure analysis
  • Two exemplary failure analysis cases
  • Forensic engineering
  • An exemplary forensic engineering case
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 7. Deducing or inferring role, purpose, and functionality during reverse engineering
  • The procedure for reverse engineering
  • Knowing versus identifying versus deducing versus inferring
  • The value of experience
  • Using available evidence, clues, and cues
  • Using geometry
  • Using flows of force, energy, and/or fluids
  • Using functional units or subsystems from a functional model
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 8. The antikythera mechanism
  • The discovery
  • The recovery
  • The suspected device
  • Operation of the mechanism
  • Reverse-engineering investigations and reconstructed models
  • Proposed planet indicator schemes
  • Similar devices, possible predecessors, and the possible creator
  • Speculation on role, purpose, and functionality
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems.
  • 9. Identifying materials-of-construction
  • The role of materials in engineering
  • The structure-property-processing-performance interrelationship
  • Material properties and performance
  • A primer on materials
  • A primer on material properties
  • Relationships for material properties in material selection charts
  • Identifying materials by observation only
  • Laboratory identification methods
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Recommended readings
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 10. Inferring methods-of-manufacture or construction
  • Interaction among function, material, shape, and process
  • The role of manufacturing or construction
  • The taxonomy of manufacturing processes
  • Process attributes
  • Inferring method-of-manufacture or construction from observations
  • A word on heat treatment
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Recommended reading
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 11. Construction of khufu's pyramid: humankind's greatest engineering creation
  • Herodotus reveals the pyramids to the world
  • The great pyramid of khufu
  • Theories on the purpose of the pyramids
  • Theories on the location of the great pyramid
  • Theories on the construction of the great pyramid
  • Deducing the likely reality of construction by reverse engineering
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Recommended readings
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 12. Assessing design suitability
  • Different designs, different role, purpose, and functionality
  • Form, fit, and function
  • Using observable evidence and clues to assess form, fit, and function
  • Summary
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 13. Bringing it all together with illustrative examples
  • Proverbs make the point; pictures fix the lesson
  • Conair electric hair blow-dryer
  • An automatic electric coffeemaker
  • Toro electric leaf blower
  • Skiltm handheld electric circular saw
  • Lessons learned
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 14. Value and production engineering
  • Manufacturability
  • Design for manufacturability
  • Value engineering
  • Production engineering
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Recommended readings
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 15. Reverse engineering materials and substances
  • Flattery or forgery
  • Motivations for reverse engineering materials and substances
  • Finding substitute and replacement substances and materials
  • Creating generic materials (generics)
  • Synthesizing natural materials and substances: biomimicry
  • Imitating natural materials
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 16. Reverse engineering broken, worn, or obsolete parts for remanufacture
  • Necessity is the mother of invention
  • The motivation for reverse engineering for remanufacture
  • Reverse engineering broken parts for remanufacture
  • Reverse engineering deformed or worn parts for remanufacture
  • Reverse engineering obsolete parts for remanufacture
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 17. The law and the ethics of reverse engineering
  • Without morals and ethics, law means nothing
  • Legal versus ethical
  • The legality of reverse engineering
  • The ethics of reverse engineering
  • Summary
  • Cited references
  • Thought questions and problems
  • 18. The end of a book, the beginning of a new story: closing thoughts
  • The first design
  • Imperfect humans need reverse engineering
  • Order from chaos, light from darkness, knowledge from knowledge
  • Learning from the old to create anew: four opportunities
  • Final words
  • Cited references
  • Recommended readings
  • Thought questions and problems
  • A. List of all material classes and major subtypes, and major members of each
  • B. Comprehensive list of specific manufacturing methods by process class
  • Casting
  • Molding
  • Deformation processing
  • Powder processing
  • Machining
  • Finishing ? Joining.