Robert W. Messler's Reverse Engineering: Mechanisms, Structures, Systems & PDF

A finished examine opposite engineering as a sound studying, layout, and troubleshooting tool

This specified e-book examines the customarily underappreciated and infrequently maligned means of opposite engineering. greater than a shortcut for the lazy or unimaginative to breed an artless replica of an present production, opposite engineering is a vital brick – if no longer a keystone – within the pathway to a society’s technological advancement.

Written through an engineer who all started educating after years in undefined, Reverse Engineering experiences this meticulous analytical procedure with a breadth and intensity as by no means sooner than. learn the way to:

• Learn via “mechanical dissection”
• Deduce the function, goal, and performance of a designed entity
• Identify materials-of-construction and methods-of-manufacture via commentary alone
• Assess the suitability of a layout to function from shape and fit

The wealthy background of engineering breakthroughs enabled by means of opposite engineering is usually mentioned. this isn't a dry textbook. it's the enticing and enlightening account of the adventure of engineering from the dazzling creations of old cultures to what, by way of opposite engineering, provides to be a fair extra mind-blowing future!

Coverage includes:

• Methods of product teardown
• Failure research and forensic engineering
• Deducing or inferring function, function, and performance in the course of opposite engineering
• The Antikythera mechanism
• Identifying materials-of-construction
• Inferring methods-of-manufacture or -construction
• Construction of Khufu’s pyramid
• Assessing layout suitability
• Value and creation engineering
• Reverse engineering of fabrics and substances
• Reverse engineering of damaged, worn, or out of date components for remanufacture
• The legislations and the ethics of opposite engineering