Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Fourth Edition

Volume 2 Design, Instrumentation, and Controls

Edited by Myer Kutz

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Preface

The second volume of the fourth edition of the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook is comprised

of two parts: Part 1, Mechanical Design, with 14 chapters, and Part 2, Instrumentation, Systems,

Controls and MEMS, with 11 chapters. The mechanical design chapters were in Volume

I in the third edition. Given the introduction of 6 new chapters, mostly on measurements, in

Volume I in this edition, it made sense to move the mechanical design chapters to Volume II

and to cull chapters on instrumentation to make way for the measurements chapters, which

are of greater use to readers of this handbook. Moreover, the mechanical design chapters have

been augmented with 4 chapters (updated as needed) from my book, Environmentally Conscious

Mechanical Design, thereby putting greater emphasis on sustainability. The 4 chapters

are Design for Environment, Life-Cycle Design, Design for Maintainability, and Design for

Remanufacturing Processes. They flesh out sustainability issues that were covered in the third

edition by only one chapter, Product Design and Manufacturing Processes for Sustainability.

The other 9 mechanical design chapters all appeared in the third edition. Six of them have

been updated.

In the second part of Volume 2, Instrumentation, Systems, Controls and MEMS, 5 of

the 11 chapters were new to the third edition of the handbook, including the 3 chapters I

labeled as “newdepartures”: Neural Networks in Control Systems,Mechatronics, and Introduction

to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Design and Application. These topics have

become increasingly important to mechanical engineers in recent years and they are included

again. Overall, 3 chapters have been updated for this edition. In addition, I brought over the

Electric Circuits chapter from the fifth edition of Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals.

Readers of this part of Volume 2 will also find a general discussion of systems

engineering; fundamentals of control system design, analysis, and performance modification;

and detailed information about the design of servo actuators, controllers, and general-purpose

control devices.

All Volume 2 contributors are from North America. I would like to thank all of them for

the considerable time and effort they put into preparing their chapters.

Vision for the Fourth Edition

Basic engineering disciplines are not static, no matter how old and well established they are.

The field ofmechanical engineering is no exception. Movement within this broadly based discipline

is multidimensional. Even the classic subjects, on which the discipline was founded, such

as mechanics of materials and heat transfer, keep evolving. Mechanical engineers continue to

be heavily involved with disciplines allied to mechanical engineering, such as industrial and

manufacturing engineering, which are also constantly evolving. Advances in other major disciplines,

such as electrical and electronics engineering, have significant impact on the work

of mechanical engineers. New subject areas, such as neural networks, suddenly become all

the rage.

In response to this exciting, dynamic atmosphere, the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook

expanded dramatically, from one to four volumes for the third edition, published in November

2005. It not only incorporated updates and revisions to chapters in the second edition, published

seven years earlier, but also added 24 chapters on entirely new subjects, with updates

and revisions to chapters in the Handbook ofMaterials Selection, published in 2002, as well as

to chapters in Instrumentation and Control, edited by Chester Nachtigal and published in 1990,

but never updated by him.

The fourth edition retains the four-volume format, but there are several additional major

changes. The second part of Volume I is now devoted entirely to topics in engineering mechanics,

with the addition of five practical chapters on measurements from the Handbook of Measurement

in Science and Engineering, published in 2013, and a chapter from the fifth edition of

Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, published in 2009. Chapters on mechanical

design have been moved from Volume I to Volumes II and III. They have been augmented

with four chapters (updated as needed) from Environmentally Conscious Mechanical Design,

published in 2007. These chapters, together with five chapters (updated as needed, three from

Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, published in 2007, and two from Environmentally

Conscious Materials Handling, published in 2009 ) in the beefed-up manufacturing section of

Volume III, give the handbook greater and practical emphasis on the vital issue of sustainability.

Prefaces to the handbook’s individual volumes provide further details on chapter additions,

updates and replacements. The four volumes of the fourth edition are arranged as follows:

Volume 1: Materials and Engineering Mechanics—27 chapters

Part 1. Materials—15 chapters

Part 2. Engineering Mechanics—12 chapters

Volume 2: Design, Instrumentation and Controls—25 chapters

Part 1. Mechanical Design—14 chapters

Part 2. Instrumentation, Systems, Controls and MEMS —11 chapters

Volume 3: Manufacturing and Management—28 chapters

Part 1. Manufacturing—16 chapters

Part 2. Management, Finance, Quality, Law, and Research—12 chapters

Volume 4: Energy and Power—35 chapters

Part 1: Energy—16 chapters

Part 2: Power—19 chapters

The mechanical engineering literature is extensive and has been so for a considerable

period of time. Many textbooks, reference works, and manuals as well as a substantial number

of journals exist. Numerous commercial publishers and professional societies, particularly

in the United States and Europe, distribute these materials. The literature grows continuously,

as applied mechanical engineering research finds new ways of designing, controlling, measuring,

making, and maintaining things, as well as monitoring and evaluating technologies,

infrastructures, and systems.

Most professional-level mechanical engineering publications tend to be specialized,

directed to the specific needs of particular groups of practitioners. Overall, however, the

mechanical engineering audience is broad and multidisciplinary. Practitioners work in a

variety of organizations, including institutions of higher learning, design, manufacturing, and

consulting firms, as well as federal, state, and local government agencies. A rationale for a

general mechanical engineering handbook is that every practitioner, researcher, and bureaucrat

cannot be an expert on every topic, especially in so broad and multidisciplinary a field, and

may need an authoritative professional summary of a subject with which he or she is not

intimately familiar.

Starting with the first edition, published in 1986, my intention has always been that the

Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook stand at the intersection of textbooks, research papers, and

design manuals. For example, I want the handbook to help young engineers move from the

college classroom to the professional office and laboratory where they may have to deal with

issues and problems in areas they have not studied extensively in school.

With this fourth edition, I have continued to produce a practical reference for the mechanical

engineer who is seeking to answer a question, solve a problem, reduce a cost, or improve

a system or facility. The handbook is not a research monograph. Its chapters offer design techniques,

illustrate successful applications, or provide guidelines to improving performance, life

expectancy, effectiveness, or usefulness of parts, assemblies, and systems. The purpose is to

show readers what options are available in a particular situation and which option they might

choose to solve problems at hand.

The aim of this handbook is to serve as a source of practical advice to readers. I hope that

the handbook will be the first information resource a practicing engineer consults when faced

with a new problem or opportunity—even before turning to other print sources, even officially

sanctioned ones, or to sites on the Internet. In each chapter, the reader should feel that he or she

is in the hands of an experienced consultant who is providing sensible advice that can lead to

beneficial action and results.

Can a single handbook, even spread out over four volumes, cover this broad, interdisciplinary

field? I have designed the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook as if it were serving as a

core for an Internet-based information source. Many chapters in the handbook point readers

to information sources on the Web dealing with the subjects addressed. Furthermore, where

appropriate, enough analytical techniques and data are provided to allow the reader to employ

a preliminary approach to solving problems.

The contributors have written, to the extent their backgrounds and capabilities make possible,

in a style that reflects practical discussion informed by real-world experience. I would

like readers to feel that they are in the presence of experienced teachers and consultants who

know about the multiplicity of technical issues that impinge on any topic within mechanical

engineering. At the same time, the level is such that students and recent graduates can find the

handbook as accessible as experienced engineers.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Vision for the Fourth Edition xi

Contributors xiii

PART 1 DESIGN 1

1. Computer-Aided Design 3

Emory W. Zimmers Jr., Charalambos A. Marangos, Sekar Sundararajan,

and Technical Staff

2. Product Design for Manufacturing and Assembly 55

Gordon Lewis

3. Design-for-Environment Processes and Tools 75

Daniel P. Fitzgerald, Thornton H. Gogoll, Linda C. Schmidt, Jeffrey W. Herrmann,

and Peter A. Sandborn

4. Design Optimization: An Overview 97

A. Ravi Ravindran and G. V. Reklaitis

5. Total Quality Management in Mechanical System Design 125

B. S. Dhillon

6. Reliability in the Mechanical Design Process 149

B.S. Dhillon

7. Product Design and Manufacturing Processes for Sustainability 177

I. S. Jawahir, P. C. Wanigarathne, and X. Wang

8. Life-Cycle Design 207

Abigail Clarke and John K. Gershenson

9. Design for Maintainability 249

O. Geoffrey Okogbaa and Wilkistar Otieno

10. Design for Remanufacturing Processes 301

Bert Bras

11. Design for Manufacture and Assembly with Plastics 329

James A. Harvey

12. Design for Six Sigma: A Mandate for Competitiveness 341

James E. McMunigal and H. Barry Bebb

13. Engineering Applications of Virtual Reality 371

Wenjuan Zhu, Xiaobo Peng, and Ming C. Leu

14. Physical Ergonomics 417

Maury A. Nussbaum and Jaap H. van Dieën

PART 2 INSTRUMENTATION, SYSTEMS, CONTROLS,

AND MEMS 437

15. Electric Circuits 439

Albert J. Rosa

16. Measurements 565

E. L. Hixson and E. A. Ripperger

17. Signal Processing 579

John Turnbull

18. Data Acquisition and Display Systems 597

Philip C. Milliman

19. Systems Engineering: Analysis, Design, and Information Processing for Analysis

and Design 625

Andrew P. Sage

20. Mathematical Models of Dynamic Physical Systems 667

K. Preston White Jr.

21. Basic Control Systems Design 747

William J. Palm III

22. General-Purpose Control Devices 805

James H. Christensen, Robert J. Kretschmann, Sujeet Chand, and Kazuhiko Yokoyama

23. Neural Networks in Feedback Control Systems 843

K. G. Vamvoudakis, F.L. Lewis, and Shuzhi Sam Ge

24. Mechatronics 895

Shane Farritor and Jeff Hawks

25. Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS):

Design and Application 943

M. E. Zaghloul

Index 955

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