Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Materials Information for CAD/CAM; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction and reader's guide; Materials and design; Design and manufacture; How this book is organized; Chapter 2. Materials selection; Introduction; Databases for materials selection; Practical issues; Transparent toy bricks; Indented aluminium; Concurrent engineering; Concurrent materials selection; Data for design; Design stages; The Ashby methods; Five more techniques; Selection extends over time; From data to information; Materials Identification; Chapter 3. Representing information.
  • Representation and integrationMaterials information; State and process; Structure-sensitive properties; Promising directions; Less promising directions; Ill-structured problems; Open questions; Relationships and adequacy; Names and values; Data modelling; Functional dependency; Partial identity; Relational data model; Normalization and normal forms; Hierarchies and catalogues; Naming and meaning; Term definition; Common vocabularies; Conceptual data modelling; McCarthy's data thesaurus; Chapter 4. Data interchange technologies; Background; Generic interchange problems; Item based formats.
  • Table based formatsConclusions on format types; History of data interchange; Techno-economic materials data; Open distributed processing; Chapter 5. Decisions and selection; Introduction; Background; Decision analysis; Rationality; Human judgement; The selection problem; Multi-attribute problems; Theorems and pitfalls; Predefined value functions; Normalization and updating; Materials selection; The PERITUS functions; Proposal; Summary; Chapter 6. Information quality; Background; Quality and data interchange; Survey of studies of data quality; Data quality levels.
  • Data reporting and identificationQuality indicators; Organizations, staff and procedures; Conclusions on information quality; Chapter 7. Knowledge-based systems; Introduction; Maintenance and explanation; Models: types of expert system; Fragility; Tutorial systems; Big systems; Combined Knowledge/Databases; The future; Chapter 8. CAD/CAM environments; Introduction; Trends in design environments; Why feedback information is important; Capricious and stable information; Creating information components; Foretelling the future; Glossary; References; Index.