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This text is intended for students beginning the study of mechanical engineering design. The focus is on blending fundamental development of concepts with practical specification of components. Students of this text should find that it inherently directs them into familiarity with both the basis for decisions and the standards of industrial components. For this reason, as students transition to practicing engineers, they will find that this text is indispensable as a reference text.

There is no lack of good textbooks dealing with the subject of machine design. These books are directed primarily to the engineering student. Because of this, they contain much theoretical material that is amenable to mathematical analysis. Such topics are preferred by the instructor as well as the student because they appeal to the student's scientific, mathematical, and computer backgrounds; are well-defined topics with a beginning, a middle, and an end; and are easy to use in testing the student's knowledge acquisition. The limited amount of time available for academic studies severely limits the number of topics that can be used as well as their treatment. Since textbooks devoted to mechanical design inevitably reflect this bias, there is great need for a handbook that treats the universe of machine design—not just the readily teachable part.

The objective ofthls book is to provide the concepts, procedure, data, and decision analysis techniques necessary to design machine elements commonly found in mcchanical devices and systerns. Students completing a course of study using this hook should be able to execute original designs for machine elements and integrate the elemenls into a system compoed of several elements.

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David G. Ullman is an active product designer who has taught, researched, and written about design for over thirty years. He is president of Robust Decisions, Inc., a supplier of software products and training for product development and decision support. He is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Design at Oregon State University. He has professionally designed fluid/thermal, control, and transportation systems. He has published over twenty papers focused on understanding the mechanical product design process and the development of tools to support it. He is founder of the American Society Mechanical Engineers (ASME)—Design Theory and Methodology Committee and is a Fellow in the ASME. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University.

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Sadly, just one year after the publication of the fourth German edition in 1997, my co-author Wolfgang Beitz died after a short but severe illness. His many outstanding contributions to engineering design, including his contribution to this book, were honoured in a memorialcolloquium held in Berlin. It would have made me very happy if he had been able to see the continuing success of our book, including its translation into Portuguese. Our collaboration was a perfect one— always fruitful, always beneficial. I am deeply grateful to him. The book, “Pahl/Beitz—Konstruktionslehre”, has now been translated into eight languages and recognized as an international reference text. For reasons of continuity, our publisher Springer wanted to pub- lish a fifth German edition of the book. To assist with this task two former students of Wolfgang Beitz became involved: Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Feldhusen and Professor Dr.-Ing. Karl-Heinrich Grote, both of whom have continually promoted and expanded his ideas. Professor Feldhusen worked for many years as a senior designer in the auto- motive industry and is now at RWTH Aachen University, succeeding Professor Dr. Ing. R. Koller. Professor Grote has considerable experience of teaching design and running projects as a Professor in the USA, and is now at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. He succeeded Professor Beitz as the Editor of the Dubbel Handbook for Mechanical Engineering.