Product Description

The new edition of this text provides up-to-date coverage and focuses on manufacturing in the real world. It features a thorough updating of material, particularly automation and other computer-oriented topics, modern materials and non-traditional manufacturing methods, especially rapid prototyping. New categories of homework problems are also included, namely, review questions, quantitative problems, qualitative problems and synthesis and design questions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #426557 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1312 pages

From the Back Cover

The book describes both time-tested and modern methods of manufacturing engineering materials. The book's popularity is due to its complete coverage and the author's writing style.

FEATURES/BENEFITS

• NEW—New chapter on Rapid Prototyping (Ch. 19).
• NEW—Every chapter has been reviewed and updated. Every bibliography has been revised, new examples from industry have been added, and over 30% of the problems are new.
• Superior use of analogies, discussions and problems.
  • Motivates interest in the subject.
• Excellent overview of manufacturing concepts is provided with a balance of relevant fundamentals and real-world practice.
• Covers the latest technological advances—Such as abrasive machining, nanofabrication, rapid tooling and semisolid metalworking.
• Contains four kinds of EOC problems—Review Questions, Qualitative Problems, Quantitative Problems, and Synthesis and Design Problems.