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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Classical Multiple V-Belts
In addition to the flat leather and fabric belts used in belt drives of the early 1900s, industry used hemp or wire rope running in grooved pulleys.

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Rubbers’ large deformation, contact, and viscoelastic behaviors make getting test data to support a model even more important.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing: Impact and Opportunity

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Engelbart is known as the inventor of the computer mouse, but, as he says, that innovation was incidental to a much larger vision of collective intelligence
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1937 Harley Davidson Knucklehead motorcycle engine

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- 2 cylinder, 45° V-OHV
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.
The attraction of Ferrofluid Bearings

Magnetic-fluid technology brings compact, low-friction, self-contained bearings capable of speeds to 30,000 rpm.