Basics of Design Engineering

The Basics of Design Engineering section references information about various technologies such as electric motors, mechanical components, engineering materials, fluid power systems, and industrial electronics, as well as selection criteria and requirements for typical engineering applications.

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Bellows Technology

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New ASME Y14.5 - 2009 Standards for GD&T

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The new ASME Y14.5, 2009 standard on dimensioning and tolerancing reflects a culmination of effort extending over 15 years.
Precision Plastic Components – Micromolding is More Than Small Parts

OEM design projects are increasingly requiring tighter tolerances, smaller or lighter components and high reliability/quality. These are challenges that must be addressed quickly by engineers in order to get the final products to market on time, even if the solution is custom in nature.
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Get Reliable Results From Rubber Test Data

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Rubbers’ large deformation, contact, and viscoelastic behaviors make getting test data to support a model even more important.

1937 Harley Davidson Knucklehead motorcycle engine

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Hydrostatic Bearings

Designing hydrostatic bearings is more complex than for self-acting types because of the greater number of components requiring design decisions.
Captive Nuts

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Captive, or self-retained, nuts are multiple-threaded fasteners used on many thin materials.
Good Solid Modeling, Bad FEA

Solid modeling is great for visualizing ideas but it's often misapplied in finite-element analysis.
Cast Iron

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Cast irons include many metals having a wide variety of properties.