Some aspects of product shape in mechanical engineering

Michael J. Pratt

pp. 373-397

in: Axiomathes 15 (3), 2005.

Abstract

The paper examines some of the many factors that influence the shape of designed products in the mechanical engineering industries. It is shown that, once the detailed shape of a product has been determined, the analysis of that shape from the viewpoints of various engineering activities downstream of design leads to a range of inherently different perceptions of it.