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Quality in Design and Execution of Engineering Practice is about quality management focused at fitness for purpose, rather than compliance with specifications, rules and regulations. The focus on getting execution in line with fitness for purpose is supported by a classification of seven different categories of quality, defined by their relevance for purpose, compliance with specifications, and actual execution. This classification facilitates decision making on desirable exemptions from specifications in the interest of both buyer and supplier. The author offers guidelines for quality management in different types of business units: License Giver, License Taker, Jobber and Consultant. Real life examples illustrate the author’s approach, which concerns a mindset rather than a recipe for effective quality management. The book is of interest to any manager who is striving for superior quality of products and services for his customers.

quality management --- engineering design --- fitness for purpose --- construction industry --- architecture

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This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water. ; Crosses regional and national boundaries to meet global challenges Proposes an integrated policy on preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of water-related structures Offers tools to facilitate collaboration among stakeholders Open Access book

Geography --- Regional planning --- Urban planning --- Environmental management --- Cultural heritage --- Engineering design

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This Open Access proceedings present a good overview of the current research landscape of industrial robots. The objective of MHI Colloquium is a successful networking at academic and management level. Thereby the colloquium is focussing on a high level academic exchange to distribute the obtained research results, determine synergetic effects and trends, connect the actors personally and in conclusion strengthen the research field as well as the MHI community. Additionally there is the possibility to become acquainted with the organizing institute. Primary audience are members of the scientific association for assembly, handling and industrial robots (WG MHI).

Robotics and Automation --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes --- Engineering Design --- Simulation and Modeling --- Machinery and Machine Elements --- Control, Robotics, Automation --- Machines, Tools, Processes --- Computer Science --- Open Access --- Assembly Processes & Systems --- Handling & Grasping --- Modelling & Simulation --- Human-robot-collaboration --- Industrial Robotics --- Robotics --- Production engineering --- Technical design --- Computer modelling & simulation --- Engines & power transmission

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In several industrial fields (such as automotive, steelmaking, aerospace, and fire protection systems) metals need to withstand a combination of cyclic loadings and high temperatures. In this condition, they usually exhibit an amount—more or less pronounced—of plastic deformation, often accompanied by creep or stress-relaxation phenomena. Plastic deformation under the action of cyclic loadings may cause fatigue cracks to appear, eventually leading to failures after a few cycles. In estimating the material strength under such loading conditions, the high-temperature material behavior needs to be considered against cyclic loading and creep, the experimental strength to isothermal/non-isothermal cyclic loadings and, not least of all, the choice and experimental calibration of numerical material models and the selection of the most comprehensive design approach. This book is a series of recent scientific contributions addressing several topics in the field of experimental characterization and physical-based modeling of material behavior and design methods against high-temperature loadings, with emphasis on the correlation between microstructure and strength. Several material types are considered, from stainless steel, aluminum alloys, Ni-based superalloys, spheroidal graphite iron, and copper alloys. The quality of scientific contributions in this book can assist scholars and scientists with their research in the field of metal plasticity, creep, and low-cycle fatigue.

creep fatigue --- pure fatigue --- economy --- engineering design --- aluminum cast --- fatigue strength --- defects --- hardness --- tensile tests --- elevated temperature --- stainless steel --- environmentally-assisted cracking --- creep --- transient effects --- Sanicro 25 --- high temperature steels --- thermal–mechanical fatigue --- probabilistic design --- constitutive models --- fatigue criterion --- experimental set-ups --- LCF --- René80 --- Probabilistic modeling --- slip system-based shear stresses --- probabilistic Schmid factors --- polycrystalline FEA --- anisotropy --- Ni-base superalloy --- aluminum-silicon cylinder head --- lost foam --- pore accumulation --- pore distribution --- thermomechanical fatigue --- X-ray micro computer tomography --- cyclic plasticity --- kinematic model --- isotropic model --- hardening/softening --- thermo-mechanical fatigue --- spheroidal cast iron --- partial constraint --- crack growth models --- crack-tip cyclic plasticity --- crack-tip blunting and sharpening --- stress relaxation aging behavior --- pre-strain --- initial stress levels --- temperature --- constitutive modelling --- AA7150-T7751 --- flow stress --- activation volume --- strain rate --- temperature --- bcc --- n/a