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Some Aspects of Product Shape in Mechanical Engineering

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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.

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Pratt, M.J. Some Aspects of Product Shape in Mechanical Engineering. Axiomathes 15, 373–397 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-004-5450-1

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