Some Aspects of Product Shape in Mechanical Engineering

Author: Pratt, Michael

Source: Axiomathes, Volume 15, Number 3, September 2005 , pp. 373-397(25)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

The paper examines some of the many factors that influence the shape of designed products in the mechanical engineering industries. It is shown that, once the detailed shape of a product has been determined, the analysis of that shape from the viewpoints of various engineering activities downstream of design leads to a range of inherently different perceptions of it.

Keywords: Form features; mechanical engineering; perception; shape

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10516-004-5450-1

Publication date: 2005-09-01