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| Mechanical Engineering is a very broad topic. Too broad for Industrial Designers. | Important in Mechanical Engineering is: does the product/part break or deform too much. To determine this, knowledge of materials and mechanics is needed. |
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| Important topics for Industrial Designers are: Applied Physics, Materials, Mechanics, Simulation and Finite Element Analysis. | * [[MechanicalEngineeringIntroduction|Introduction]] * [[Materials]] * [[Mechanics]] |
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| == Literature: == * '''Applied Physics''': Young & Freedman, University Physics, 13th edition. * '''Mechanics''': Fenner R.T., Mechanics of Solids, CRC Press. * '''Materials''': Ashby, Shercliff, Cebon, Materials: engineering, science, processing and design, Butterworth Heinemann. |
To operate more complex products very often sensors and actuators are needed. Thus knowledge of how sensors and actuators work is needed. To control the actuators, given the sensor inputs, also knowledge of system behaviour and controllers are needed. |
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| '''Good software tools''': | * [[System behaviour]] * [[Sensors]] * [[Actuators]] * [[Control]] |
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| * Computer Aided Design & Finite Element Analysis: Solidworks * Mathematical package: Matlab * Simulation: Simulink * Materials: CES Edupack CES Edupack is a materials database which contains data about approximately 3000 materials. The database contains mechanical, electrical, optical, cost price, eco, typical application and producers data. Below you find presentations I regularly give about: * Materials selection [[attachment:MaterialsSelection.pdf|presentation]] * Material behavior [[attachment:MaterialBehavior.pdf|presentation]] * Mechanics [[attachment:MechanicsForID|presentation]] All above mentioned software packages are made freely available for Industrial Design students. Simulink is (as part of Matlab) available from the TU/e PC software page. Solidworks and CES Edupack are available from the faculties software page. |
Nature is beautiful. Phenomena in different fields of physics, like mechanics/electronics/pneumatics/hydraulics, can be described using the same type of mathematical equations. See also the research fields of [[System behaviour]] and [[Mechatronics]] [Isermann2005]. |
Mechanical Engineering
Important in Mechanical Engineering is: does the product/part break or deform too much. To determine this, knowledge of materials and mechanics is needed.
To operate more complex products very often sensors and actuators are needed. Thus knowledge of how sensors and actuators work is needed. To control the actuators, given the sensor inputs, also knowledge of system behaviour and controllers are needed.
Nature is beautiful. Phenomena in different fields of physics, like mechanics/electronics/pneumatics/hydraulics, can be described using the same type of mathematical equations. See also the research fields of System behaviour and Mechatronics [Isermann2005].