By Robert Messler
A finished examine opposite engineering as a valid studying, layout, and troubleshooting tool
This distinct booklet examines the usually underappreciated and infrequently maligned means of opposite engineering. greater than a shortcut for the lazy or unimaginative to breed an artless reproduction of an current production, opposite engineering is an important brick – if now not a keystone – within the pathway to a society’s technological advancement.
Written by way of an engineer who all started educating after years in undefined, opposite Engineering experiences this meticulous analytical strategy with a breadth and intensity as by no means earlier than. learn the way to:
• research by way of “mechanical dissection”
• Deduce the function, goal, and performance of a designed entity
• establish materials-of-construction and methods-of-manufacture via statement alone
• verify the suitability of a layout to goal from shape and fit
The wealthy background of engineering breakthroughs enabled by way of opposite engineering can be mentioned. this isn't a dry textbook. it's the attractive and enlightening account of the adventure of engineering from the dazzling creations of historical cultures to what, by means of opposite engineering, provides to be a good extra stunning future!
Coverage includes:
• equipment of product teardown
• Failure research and forensic engineering
• Deducing or inferring position, objective, and performance in the course of opposite engineering
• The Antikythera mechanism
• picking out materials-of-construction
• Inferring methods-of-manufacture or -construction
• development of Khufu’s pyramid
• Assessing layout suitability
• worth and construction engineering
• opposite engineering of fabrics and substances
• opposite engineering of damaged, worn, or out of date elements for remanufacture
• The legislations and the ethics of opposite engineering