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Fundamentals of Modeling and Analyzing Engineering Systems
Philip D. Cha, James J. Rosenberg, and Clive L. Dym
This text, aimed at beginning engineering students, offers a broad-based introduction to engineering systems that incorporates material from mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and chemical engineering. The overall theme that distinguishes the text from others is its unified treatment of disparate physical systems, emphasizing similarities in both the modeling and behavior of lumped-element systems. Chapters cover linear graph theory, analysis of system dynamics organized by behavioral characteristics rather than by engineering subdisciplines, the Laplace transform, and feedback systems. Every chapter includes examples and exercise problems, drawn from real-world mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, chemical, and thermal systems.
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Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction
Clive L. Dym and Patrick Little
Focus on the Methods and Techniques Needed for Conceptual Design Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction by Clive L. Dym and Patrick Little introduces conceptual design methods and project management tools in the context of a team working on a design project initiated by a client. Two design projects are consistently drawn upon to illustrate the design methods and management tools. The book also summarizes means of reporting the results of a design project and provides useful insights into team behaviors and dynamics. The Design Process This extended, five-stage, "linear" model of the design process is integrated throughout the text. Following the steps outlined in this model allows the reader to learn how to examine the problem at hand and develop an effective design solution. This includes developing an engineering statement of what the client wants, progressing through several design stages, and finally documenting the fabrication specifications and their justification.
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Structural Modeling and Analysis
Clive L. Dym
The study of structural analysis and design is a central subject in civil, aeronautical, and mechanical engineering. This book presents a modern and unified introduction to structural analysis, with a strong emphasis on how structures actually behave. The unifying theme is the application of energy methods, developed without the formal mathematics of the calculus of variations. The energy approach makes it possible to articulate the logical relationship between equilibrium and compatibility; emphasize the unity of structural analysis, particularly for indeterminate structures; and identify the roles of idealization and discretization in structural modeling. Thus, energy methods also serve as a prelude to the main ideas behind modern computational approaches to structural analysis and design. As an aid to upper-level undergraduate students in mastering this material, the text includes numerous worked examples, as well as homework problems.
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Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views
Clive L. Dym
Design is a central activity in engineering. It is both a creative process not easily defined and a thought process that can, with increasing success, be externalized, articulated, and modeled. This book aims to clarify the issues, providing an operational definition of engineering design and an explication of design as a discipline. In particular, the book focuses on the contribution of AI (artificial intelligence) to engineering design. With its clear presentation of the main ideas of recent AI-based models of design, set within the context of inductive design models, the book offers an integrated view of current thinking about design. Also included is a brief review of some key AI-based problem-solving methods and classical design tools. The author closes with a look ahead at the roles that symbolic representation and knowledge-based (expert) systems can play in engineering design in practice and in education.
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Harvey Mudd College : The First Twenty Years
Joseph B. Platt
Joseph Platt, the author, was the founding president of Harvey Mudd College and a senior professor of physics.
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Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying
Arthur T. Benjamin and Michael B. Shermer
Using proven techniques, Mathemagics presents the secrets of lightning calculation. It shows how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide faster than is possible with a calculator or pencil and paper and helps readers conquer their nervousness about math.
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Teach Your Child Math
Arthur T. Benjamin and Michael B. Shermer
By transforming math "problems" into games, this easy-to-follow book gives parents a fun way to help their children learn math. With an expanded section on problem solving, fun word problems, and entertaining visual concepts, it proves that math can be interesting.
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Knowledge-Based Systems in Engineering
Clive L. Dym and Raymond E. Levitt
This book integrates the fundamentals of artifical intelligence (AI) approaches to knowledge representation with engineering examples. Its unified treatment makes it an essential tool in this emerging new field. Combining an informed approach to AI with engineering problem solving, this book is suitable for an introductory course on AI/expert systems which is specifically offered to engineers. The text provides an in-depth appreciation of the AI fundamentals underlying knowledge-based systems and covers rule-based, frame-based, and object-oriented representation with many engineering illustrations. Special Features include: discussions of emerging techniques, such as the methodology for integrating AI with CAD; implementation issues including knowledge acquisition, software and hardware issues, the system-building process, validation and testing of expert systems, and some sociological and legal aspects.
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Introduction to the Theory of Shells
Clive L. Dym
This is an updated version of the text, first published in 1974. It provides an introduction to the theory of shell foundation and to some of the important problems that can be tackled within the framework of shell theory.
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Energy and Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics
Irving H. Shames and Clive L. Dym
This book is the outcome of material used in senior and graduate courses for students in civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering. To meet the needs of this varied audience, the author have laboured to make this text as flexible as possible to use.consequently, the book is divided into three distinct parts of approximately equal size. Part I is entitled foundations of solid mechanics and variational methods, part II is entitled structural mechanics; and part III is entitled finite elements.depending on the background of the students and the aims of the course selected portions can be used from some or all of the three parts of the text to form the basis of an individual course.the purpose of this useful book is to afford the student a sound foundation in variational calculus and energy methods before delving into finite elements. He goal is to make finite elements more understandable in terms of fundamentals and also to provide the student with the background needed to extrapolate the finite element method to areas of study other than solid mechanics. In addition, a number of approximation techniques are made available using the quadratic functional for a boundary-value problem.finally, the authors; aim is to give students who go through the entire text a balanced and connected exposure to certain key aspects of modern structural and solid mechanics.
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Solid Mechanics: A Variational Approach
Clive L. Dym and Irving H. Shames
This work offers a clear and carefully prepared exposition of variational techniques as they are applied to solid mechanics. Unlike other books in this field, Dym and Shames treat all the necessary theory needed for the study of solid mechanics and include extensive applications. Of particular note is the variational approach used in developing consistent structural theories and in obtaining exact and approximate solutions for many problems.
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