Product Description

For undergraduate courses in Mechanical, Industrial, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering Programs. For graduate courses in Manufacturing Science and Engineering. This comprehensive, up-to-date text has balanced coverage of the fundamentals of materials and processes, its analytical approaches, and its applications in manufacturing engineering. Students using this text will be able to properly assess the capabilities, limitations, and potential of manufacturing processes and their competitive aspects.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329026 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1040 pages

From the Inside Flap

The fourth edition of this text, like the previous editions, continues to make an attempt at presenting a comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of the relevant fundamentals and real-world applications of engineering materials and manufacturing processes and systems and the analytical approaches involved. The topics covered throughout the 16 chapters reflect the rapid and significant advances that have taken place in various areas in manufacturing, and they are organized and described in such a manner to draw the interest of students. The case studies, mostly from industry, make the subject of manufacturing science arr4engineering less abstract by showing students the practical aspects of process applications.

Integration of product design and manufacturing has justly resulted in greater recognition and prestige for these disciplines, and this edition therefore puts greater emphasis and better focus on this increasingly important subject. While studying this text, students should be able to assess the capabilities, limitations, and potential of production processes, including, particularly, the processes' economic and competitive aspects. The discussions throughout the chapters are aimed at motivating and challenging students to explore technically and economically viable solutions to a wide variety of important questions and problems in product design and manufacturing.

This book has been written mainly for undergraduate students in mechanical, industrial, and metallurgical and materials engineering programs; it is also useful for graduate courses in manufacturing science and engineering. The text, as well as the numerous examples and case studies in each chapter, clearly shows that manufacturing engineering is an interdisciplinary and complex subject and that it is as important, exciting, and challenging as any other engineering discipline.

What's new in this edition

• A new chapter has been added that covers the fabrication of microelectronic and micromechanical devices.
• The discussion of design considerations in each chapter have been expanded.
• Several new examples and case studies have been added throughout all chapters.
• A total of 1230 questions and problems has been added-30% more than in the third edition.
• Questions and problems now include a total of 140 design problems.
• Figures have been improved for better graphical impact.
• More cross-references to sections and chapters have been added throughout the text.
• All chapter bibliographies have been thoroughly updated.

New or expanded topics for this edition include the following:

• Automated guided vehicles
• Biodegradable plastics
• Cryogenic machining and grinding
• Cryogenic treatment of cutting tools
• Design considerations for casting
• Design considerations for powder metallurgy
• Design considerations for sheet-metal forming
• Electrically conducting adhesives
• Enterprise resource planning
• Flexible fixturing
• ISO 9000 and 14000 standards
• Life-cycle assessment
• LIGA process
• Metal foams
• Microelectromechanical systems fabrication
• Microelectronics device fabrication
• Micromachining
• Modeling of casting
• Nanomaterials
• Plasma and wet etching
• Polymer processing
• Printed circuit boards
• Rapid protoyping and rapid tooling
• Rotary ultrasonic machining
• Silicon microstructure
• Six-sigma quality
• Solid free-form fabrication
• Stick-slip in extrusion
• Superconductor processingSurface-mount technology
• Value assessment
• Vibration and chatter in rolling
• Water-jet peening

From the Back Cover
Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials

 

Fifth Edition

 

Serope Kalpakjian and Steven R. Schmid

 

 

 

This new edition of Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials continues its tradition of balanced and comprehensive coverage of relevant engineering fundamentals, mathematical analysis, and traditional as well as advanced applications of manufacturing processes and operations.  Updated and thoroughly edited for improved readability and clarity, this book is written mainly for students in mechanical, industrial, and metallurgical and materials engineering programs. The text continually emphasizes the important interactions among a wide variety of technical disciplines and the economics of manufacturing operations in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. 

 

New and expanded topics in this edition include: 

§         Communications networks

§         Design considerations in manufacturing

§         Fabrication of micromechanical and microelectromechanical devices

§         Holonic manufacturing systems

§         Incremental forming

§         Life-cycle engineering and sustainable manufacturing

§         Mechanics of polymer processing

§         Micromachining

§         Nanomanufacturing and nanomaterials

§         Rapid prototyping and rapid tooling

§         Taguchi methods

§         Web sites for information relevant to manufacturing

 

Numerous figures have been added or improved for enhanced graphic impact, the number of questions and problems has been increased by about twenty percent and answers to selected problems are provided, and the Bibliography at the end of each chapter has been thoroughly updated. The text now has a larger number of cross-references throughout to give students a perspective of the often complex interrelationships among materials, product design, and manufacturing processes and operations, and the numerous technical and economic factors involved in their selection.

About the Author

Serope Kalpakjian taught and conducted research at the Illinois Institute of Technology for 38 years prior to his retirement in 2001 as professor emeritus of mechanical and materials engineering. After graduating from Robert College (high honors), Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined Cincinnati Milacron, where he was a research supervisor in advanced metal-forming processes. He is the author of numerous technical papers and several articles in handbooks and encyclopedias and has edited various conference proceedings. In addition, Professor Kalpakjian has served on the editorial bards of several journals and the Encyclopedia Americana and is the coauthor of Lubricants and Lubrication in Metalworking Operations. Both first editions of his textbooks, Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, have received the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award. He is a Life Fellow of the ASME, Fellow of the SME, Fellow and Life Member of ASM International, emeritus member of CIRP (International Institution for Production Engineering Research), and a founding member and past president of NAMRI/SME.

Among the awards Professor Kalpakjian has received are the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation Best Paper Award (1966), an Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT (1970), the Centennial Medallion from the ASME (1980), the International Education Award from the SME (1989), a Person of the Millennium Award from IIT (1999), and the Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award from ASM International (2000). SME named the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award after Professor Kalpakjian for the year 2002.

Steven R. Schmid is an associate professor with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, where he teaches and performs research in the general areas of manufacturing, machine design, and tribology. As the director of the Manufacturing Tribology Laboratory at the university, he oversees industry- and government-funded research on a variety of manufacturing topics, including tribological issues in rolling, forging and sheet-metal forming, polymer processing, medical-device design and manufacture, and nanomechanics.

He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (with honors) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in mechanical engineering, from Northwestern University. He has received numerous awards, including the John T Parsons Award from the SME (2000), the Newkirk Award from the ASME (2000), and the Kaneb Center Teaching Award (2000). He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREERS Award (1996) and an ALCOA Foundation Award (1994). Dr. Schmid is the author of over 50 technical papers; has edited three conference proceedings; has coauthored two books, Fundamentals o f Machine Elements and Manufacturing Engineering and Tecbnology; and has contributed two chapters to the CRC Handbook of Modern Tribology. He serves on the Tribology Division Executive Committee of the ASME, is an associate editor of the Journal o f Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and is a registered professional engineer and certified manufacturing engineer.

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Customer Reviews

Great book and great educator
i was privileged enough to have dr. kalpakjian as a teacher in college before he retired. we used his 3rd edition as our textbook. now as i start my career in engineering, i am finding that i need to refer to the book! i borrowed the book in college for his class and am now buying a copy for our office. a great reference. very well thought out book with excellent diagrams. worth every penny.

Oversimplified
The emphasis of this book seems to be more on the basic mechanics of the different processes it describes. That's fine, and important to understand manufacturing, but...

BUT, he gives very little attention to how the material being processed responds to the processing. Without a better understanding of the microstructural effects -- and ensuing DEfects -- it may be too hard to troubleshoot the processes described in this book.

My professor was flipping through the early chapters of this book (where the materials issues are presented) and declared them "cheesy."

So, to sum up: this good book becomes great by combining it with other books/courses/professors/etc that will interject materials issues into this books discussion of the mechanical issues.

A great engineering book
This book is one of the best in manufacturing engineering, even if there are a few mistakes in some mathematical deductions. I think it is a very didactic and easy to learn book, it shows almost every manufacturing process used by modern industry.