READOS / Engineering
Engineering Design Practice
Calculations, tolerances, drawings, data, simulation, professional duty and what failures teach.
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- 01SI units and calculation checking: keeping engineering numbers honestHow SI units and prefixes work, the unit traps that cause real failures, consistent unit sets for engineering, sensible precision and a practical routine for checking calculations and spreadsheets.
- 02Specifying tolerances, fits and surface finish: tight where function needs it, economical everywhere elseEvery tolerance is a cost commitment. How to set general tolerances, choose fits, analyse stack-ups, use datums and geometric tolerances, and specify surface finish only where it matters.
- 03Choosing a manufacturing process for metal parts: casting, forging, machining, fabrication and moreThe process you choose fixes a metal part's cost, lead time and properties. How to compare casting, forging, machining, fabrication, press work, powder metallurgy and 3D printing.
- 04Drawings and documentation packages that suppliers can quote and make fromVague drawings bring padded quotes, endless questions and wrong parts. What a complete package contains and how to dimension, annotate, control revisions and check drawings before release.
- 05Governing a CAD environment: an owner, a standards register, shared libraries and coordinated upgradesCAD environments decay through small, unrecorded changes. How to name an owner, keep a standards register, control libraries and settings, roll out changes safely and upgrade together.
- 06Product data management for small engineering teams: vaults, revisions, workflows and releaseWhy shared folders fail for CAD data, what a PDM system does, how to set up lifecycle states, revisions, workflows and permissions, and how to migrate legacy files safely.
- 07Using simulation in design: finite element analysis and motion studies without false confidenceHow FEA and motion studies work, where errors come from in geometry, materials, meshes and boundary conditions, how to recognise stress singularities and how to verify results before trusting them.
- 08Sampling and quantisation before data reaches a databaseUnderstand how sampling, aliasing, converter resolution and signal conditioning affect measurement records before storage, reporting or analysis begins.
- 09Engineering registration, competence and duty of care in Australia: what businesses need to knowWho may do engineering work, who must check it and who is liable when it fails. A practical guide to registration, competence, design duties and independent verification in Australia.
- 10What engineering failures teach any business: lessons from major investigationsMajor engineering disasters rarely came from unknown physics. They came from how organisations handled what they already knew. Lessons from the investigations that apply to any business.
These topic-based reading collections are organised alphabetically; chapters may be read in any order.
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