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This text explores all of the manufacturing processes, materials, and equipment used to convert raw materials into a final product. It presents the most commonly used and recently developed manufacturing methods, along with applications, worked examples, exercises, and review questions. Materials covered include metallics, polymers, ceramics, and glasses. The book discusses heat treatments, smelting of metals, casting, forming, powder metallurgy, joining processes, and surface technology. It also looks at the environmental aspects related to manufacturing and clean factories and describes trends in surface hardening technology.
List of contents
Introduction to Manufacturing Technology. Engineering Materials. Heat Treatment of Metallic Materials and Alloys. Smelting of Metallic Materials. Casting of Metals. Fundamentals of Metal Forming. Bulk Forming. Sheet Metal Forming. High Speed Metal Forming. Powder Metallurgy and Manufacture of Ceramics. Processing of Polymers. Manufacturing Processes for Composites. Traditional Machining Processes. Nontraditional Machining Processes. NC of Machine Tools. Industrial Robots and Hexapods. Surface Technology. Joining Processes. Advanced Manufacturing Techniques. Materials, Processes, and Design for Manufacturing. Quality Control. Automation in Manufacturing Technology. Health, Safety, and Environmental Aspects in Manufacturing.
About the author
Professor Helmi A. A. Youssef , born in August, 1938 in Alexandria, Egypt, acquired his B.Sc. degree with honor in Production Engineering from Alexandria University in 1960. He completed his scientific building in the Carolo-Welhelmina, TH Braunschweig in Germany during the period 1961-1967. In June 1964 he earned his Dipl.-Ing. degree, then in December 1967, he completed his Dr.-Ing. degree in the domain of Non-traditional Machining. In 1968, he returned to Alexandria University, Production Engineering Dept. as an assistant professor. In 1973was promoted to associate, and in 1978 to full professor. In the period 1995-1998, professor Youssef was the chairman of the Production Engineering Dept., Alexandria University. Since 1989, he has been a member of the scientific committee for promotion of professors in Egyptian universities. Between 1975 and 1995, Professor Youssef was a visiting professor in El-Fateh University in Tripoli, the Technical University in Baghdad, King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh, and Beirut Arab University (BAU) in Beirut. He established laboratories, and supervised many M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. Professor Youssef has organized and participated in many international conferences. He has published many scientific papers in specialized journals. He has co-authored many books in his fields of specialization, and has been the single author of two books. One book, co-authored on Machining Technology, has been published in 2008 by CRC, USA. Currently, he is an emeritus professor in PED, Alexandria University.Professor Hassan El-Hofy was born in 1953, in Egypt. He received a B. Sc Honors degree in Production Engineering from Alexandria University in 1976, and then served as a teaching assistant in the same department and received a M. Sc. in Production Engineering from Alexandria University in 1979. Following M. Sc., he worked as an assistant lecturer until October 1980 when he left to Aberdeen University i
