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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2014]
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| 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.