Thought-Evoking Approaches in Engineering Problems

1. Tangential Force Ratio and Its Applications to Industrial Technologies - Anti-vibration steel plate for refrigerator and derailment of rolling stock.- 2. In-process Measurement for Machining States - Sensing technology in noisy space.- 3. Ultrasonic Waves Method for Interface Pressure Measurement - What is Acceptable Definition of Interface Pressure.- 4. The Painless Injection Tube - From bio-mimetic technology to medical engineering.- 5. Water-jet Machining and Its Applications - Relaxation of stress concentration in cylindrical roller bearing and preferable finish of artificial joints.- 6. Heat Sinks in Computers.- 7. Noise, Vibration and Pulsation Problems in Oil Hydraulic Components and Systems.- 8. Design and Development of Construction Equipment.- 9. Remanufacturing in Machinery - Reuse and Disposal of Swarf.- 10. Similarity Evaluation for Flexible Manufacturing Cell - An Interesting Application of Graph Theory to Manufacture.- 11. Model Determination for Production Activities within Enterprise - A Challenging Trial for Virtual Concentration of Production Bases.- 12. Leverage between Industrial and Engineering Designs in Enclosure of Machine Tools.- 13. Clarification for Essential Features of Scraped Slide way by Step-land Bearing Model - Conversion of Skilled Craft to Industrial Technology.

Yoshimi Ito, Dr.Eng., CEng., FIET, is professor emeritus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and past president of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. The author of numerous engineering research papers and books, he is currently a guest technical advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is working to establish the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing.