Engineering for Industrial Designers and Inventors

Index

A

• abduction, Human Injuries Related to Design
• abrasive wear, Zinc
• absolute pressure, Pressure
• absolute zero, The Baseline Temperature, Third Law of Thermodynamics
• absorption, Radiation Heat Transfer
• acceleration of objects by loads, Static Loads
• acoustic resonance, Noise
• action and reaction, Newton’s third law regarding, Static Loads
• actuators, Actuators
• adduction, Human Injuries Related to Design
• adhesives, Characteristics of Adhesives-Characteristics of Adhesives
• aestheticism, The Role of Aesthetics in Design
• aesthetics, Designing for People, Starting the Design, The Role of Aesthetics in Design-The Role of Aesthetics in Design
• affordances, Ethnography’s Role in User-Centered Design
• aircraft carrier design, The Role of Aesthetics in Design
• aircraft design, Intuition, Internal Sources of Heat
• aluminum, Aluminum-Aluminum, Zinc, Corrosion Characteristics
• analogous colors, Ethnography’s Role in User-Centered Design
• anisotropic materials, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Materials
  • (see also composite materials)
• anode, Anodes and Cathodes
• anthropometric data, Anthropometry-Seat Design Example
• aramid fiber, Characteristics of Fibers
• Armstrong, Neil, Battle with the Virtual World
• art, vocabulary for, Ethnography’s Role in User-Centered Design
  • (see also aesthetics; creativity)
• artificial neural networks, Expert Systems and Artificial Neural Networks-Expert Systems and Artificial Neural Networks
• Ask, Thomas, Preface
• atmospheric pressure, Pressure

B

• balance, Ethnography’s Role in User-Centered Design
• baseline temperature ...