Author: J Paulo Davim

Manufacturing Engineering Education includes original and unpublished chapters that develop the applications of the manufacturing engineering education field. Chapters convey innovative research idea …

Advanced Applications in Manufacturing Engineering presents the latest research and development in manufacturing engineering across a range of areas, treating manufacturing engineering on an internat …

Tribology for engineers discusses recent research and applications of principles of friction, wear and lubrication, and provides the fundamentals and advances in tribology for modern industry. The bo …

This book is the third in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, and includes high quality articles (full research articles, review articles and case studies) with a special …

Medical tribology can be defined as the science of tribological phenomena in the human body, both those that naturally occur in the tissues or organs and those that arise after implantation of an art …

Computational Methods and Production Engineering: Research and Development is an original book publishing refereed, high quality articles with a special emphasis on research and development in produc …

This forward-thinking, practical book provides essential information on modern machining technology for industry with emphasis on the processes used regularly across several major industries. Machini …

This book, the first in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, is a collection of high quality articles (full research articles, review articles and cases studies) with a spe …

This book, the second in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, is a collection of high quality articles (full research articles, review articles, and cases studies) with a s …

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Medical devices play an important role in the field of medical and health technology, and encompass a wide range of health care products. Directive 2007/47/EC defines a medical device as any instrume …

Materials Forming and Machining: Research and Development publishes refereed, high quality articles with a special emphasis on research and development in forming materials, machining, and its applic …

Microfabrication and precision engineering is an increasingly important area relating to metallic, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials and complex materials. Micro-electro-mechanical-systems …

Nowadays, machining is one of the most important of manufacturing processes in which a cutting tool or others techniques are used to remove excess material from a workpiece so that the remaining mate …

Metal cutting is a science and technology with great interest for several important industries such as automotive, aeronautics, aerospace, alternative energy, moulds and dies, biomedical, etc. Metal …

Recently, the use of composite materials has increased in various areas of science and technology due to their special properties, with applications in biomedical, aircraft, automotive, defence and a …

Nowadays, machining is one of the most important of manufacturing processes in which a cutting tool or other techniques are used to remove excess material from a workpiece so that the remaining mater …

Tribology includes the research and application of principles of friction, wear, and lubrication. Frictional interactions in small scale are becoming increasingly important for the development of new …

Nowadays, it is common to define tribology as the "science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion". It includes a study that deals with the design, friction, wear and lub …

Artificial intelligence is a subfield of computer science concerned with understanding the nature of intelligence and constructing computer systems capable of intelligent action. Artificial intellige …

Machining and forming technologies are two of the most important manufacturing processes, which includes a large group of manufacturing processes in which plastic deformation and others techniques ar …

Mechatronics is an interdisciplinary engineering field which studies the automata from an engineering perspective, thinking on the design of products and manufacturing processes. As manufacturing bec …

Recently, the utilization of metal matrix composites (MMC’s) has increased in various areas of industry due to their special mechanical and physical properties. MMC’s, particularly aluminium based co …

Machining is a science and technology that holds great interest in industrialized countries (G7) and countries with emerging economies (BRICS). Nowadays, several important and advanced industries suc …

Currently, manufacturing engineering assumes a great importance to industrialized countries (G7) and countries with emerging economies (BRICS). Manufacturing engineering is a discipline of engineerin …

Nowadays, the use of microcomponents and miniaturized functional products from metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and advanced materials has increased in various areas of science and technology d …