Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping

"Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping" offers insight into the methods and techniques that allow for easily implementing engineering designs by incorporating advanced methodologies and technologies. This book contains advanced topics such as feature-b

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Ali K. Kamrani    Emad Abouel Nasr ●

Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping

Ali K. Kamrani Industrial Engineering Department University of Houston Houston, TX, USA and Fatimah Alnijris’s Research Chair for Advanced Manufacturing Technology Industrial Engineering Department King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [email protected]

Emad Abouel Nasr Fatimah Alnijris’s Research Chair for Advanced Manufacturing Technology Industrial Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering Helwan University Helwan, Egypt [email protected]

ISBN 978-0-387-95862-0 e-ISBN 978-0-387-95863-7 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-95863-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010932806 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in ­connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

To my wife Sonia and sons Arshya and Ariya Ali Kamrani To my parents, wife, and children Nada, Haidy, and Amr Emad Abouel Nasr

Preface

Engineering design process consists of a set of activities arranged in a specific order with the clearly identified inputs and outputs. The process of engineering design is an iterative that supports the decision-making activities involved. Each activity in the process takes an input and transforms it into an output of some value defined by design specifications and objectives. The output of the process is either a product, a process, or a service. The objective of the process is to satisfy customer requirements and management objectives. This process is considered efficient when the output of the process satisfies general customers and defined requirements, meets management objectives and customer deadlines, and all these with less costs and resources. Establishing objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing, and evaluation are considered as fundamental elements within the design process. Steps in the Engineering design process are illustrated in Fig. 1. These steps and further described below: 1. Identify the Need/Problem: This step is not always realized by engineers. Problems are typically identified by the market and customers and then passed on to the engineering group to search and develop