Advanced Engineering Design

<p>Dedication</p> <p>List of figures and tables</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p> <p>About the author</p> <p>Chapter 1: The design process</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>1.1 The concept of design and related terms</p> <p>1.2 Design as a value-generating process in society</p> <p>1.3 The goal of design theories</p> <p>1.4 Background</p> <p>1.5 The scope of design theories</p> <p>1.6 The definition of design</p> <p>1.7 The characteristics of design</p> <p>1.8 Design problem</p> <p>1.9 Activities in the design process</p> <p>1.10 Information management</p> <p>1.11 The design process as a product</p> <p>1.12 The importance of the design process</p> <p>1.13 The importance of Design Science</p> <p>Chapter 2: Information, entropy and its relationship to design</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>2.1 The design process in terms of probabilities</p> <p>2.2 Definition of design</p> <p>2.3 Uncertainty</p> <p>2.4 Entropy</p> <p>2.5 Joint entropy, conditioned entropy and relative entropy</p> <p>2.6 Mutual information</p> <p>2.7 Upper and lower bounds of mutual information. Information content of a variable</p> <p>2.8 Process information</p> <p>2.9 Spaces of definition: need–solution–response–satisfaction</p> <p>2.10 Degree of satisfaction</p> <p>2.11 Conceptual and detailed design</p> <p>2.12 Operators. Necessary, generated and available information</p> <p>2.13 First statements</p> <p>Chapter 3: Axiomatic design</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>3.1 Introduction to axiomatic design</p> <p>3.2 Independence axiom</p> <p>3.3 Information axiom</p> <p>3.4 Independence of the axioms</p> <p>3.5 Most relevant theorems and corollaries</p> <p>3.6 Design process</p> <p>3.7 Example application in the aeronautical industry: main bearing configuration on a jet engine</p> <p>3.8 Quantitative study of the design matrix</p> <p>3.9 Example application: flow and temperature control 54</p> <p>Chapter 4: Metric design</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>4.1 Introduction to metric design</p> <p>4.2 Quality loss</p> <p>4.3 System design and parameter design</p> <p>4.4 Tolerance design</p> <p>4.5 Robust design</p> <p>4.6 Cost-effectiveness of advanced design techniques</p> <p>4.7 Example application</p> <p>Chapter 5: Reliability-based design</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>5.1 Objective of reliability calculations</p> <p>5.2 Definition of reliability</p> <p>5.3 Calculating the probability of failure</p> <p>5.4 First-Order Reliability Model (FORM)</p> <p>5.5 Semi-empirical reliability model</p> <p>5.6 Example application: influence of radial clearance on bearing life with a surface fatigue failure mode</p> <p>Chapter 6: Entropy-based design</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>6.1 The Minimum Tolerance Theorem</p> <p>6.2 The Linearity Theorem</p> <p>6.3 Example application: conceptual design of a fuel supply system for gasoline engines</p> <p>6.4 The principle of minimum generation of entropy and information</p> <p>Appendix: statistical concepts</p> <p>Index</p>