Advanced Design and Manufacture III

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Selected and peer reviewed, 144 papers explore such themes as product, industrial, and engineering design; sustainable development, lifecycle assessment, eco-design, eco-manufacturing, and renewable energy; mechanical transmissions; concurrent engineering and rapid prototyping; and engineering education. Among the topics are developing complex products containing sub-assemblies, bionic research of turtle hydrofoil propulsion, damping responses of viscoelastic composite material structures, assembling nanostructures with a mechanical nano-manipulator, theory and experimental study on transmission error in a gear system, optimizing a scheduling model of ship-based aircraft, selecting artificial boundary conditions in soil-structure dynamic interaction, and a data-driven neural network approach to predicting useful life remaining.