Integrated Computer-Aided Design of Mechanical Systems

✍ Scribed by S. A. Meguid (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, the author has presented an introduction to the practical application of some of the essential technical topics related to computer-aided engineering (CAE). These topics include interactive computer graphics (ICG), computer-aided design (CAD), computer­ and computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). aided analysis (CAA) Unlike the few texts available, the present work attempts to bring all these seemingly specialised topics together and to demonstrate their integration in the design process through practical applications to real engineering problems and case studies. This book is the result of the author's research and teaching activities for several years of postgraduate and undergraduate courses in mechanical design of rotating machinery, computer-aided engineering, of finite elements, solid mechanics, engineering practical applications and properties of materials at Cranfield Institute of dynamics Technology, Oxford Engineering Science and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). It was soon realised that no books on the most powerful and versatile tools available to engineering designers existed. To satisfy this developing need, this book, on the use of computers to aid the design process and to integrate design, analysis and manufacture, was prepared.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Three-Dimensional Automated Modelling....Pages 13-24
Computer-Aided Design....Pages 25-83
Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method....Pages 84-125
Computer-Aided Analysis....Pages 126-161
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing....Pages 162-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-196

✦ Subjects

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design;Materials Science, general;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;Engineering Design