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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812040903321

Titolo

Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading edge engineering from the 1996 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering / / National Academy of Engineering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 1997

ISBN

0-309-17485-6

0-309-52435-0

0-585-16592-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Engineering - Research - United States

Chemical engineering - Research - United States

Engineering - Technological innovations - United States

Chemical engineering - Technological innovations - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Designing Vehicles in Changing Times -- Development of Performance-Based Seismic Design Procedures -- Information in the Design Process -- Product Modularity: A Key Concept in Life-Cycle Design -- Visualizing Aircraft Aerodynamic Design -- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality In Aircraft Design and Manufacturing -- The Frontiers of Virtual Reality Applied to High Performance Computing and Communications -- Digitizing the Shape and Appearance of Three-Dimensional Objects -- Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) -- Fabrication Technology and the Challenges of Large-Scale Production -- Frontiers in MEMS Design -- Large-Market Applications of MEMS -- Cellular Materials: Structure, Properties, and Applications -- Silicon Satellites -- Novel Ceramic Ferroelectric Composites -- Co-Continuous Composite Materials from Net-Shape Displacement Reactions -- Institutional Cultures and Individual Careers -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.