This thesis focuses on the material selection process in industrial design activity and existing material selection sources particularly used by industrial designers. Therefore, in this study, the knowledge about materials the designers need, and materials selection sources and the methods they use are explored. The aim is, to propose guidelines for a materials selection source basing on the designers&rsquo / needs and expectations from such a guide. The thesis consists of a critical review of the literature on existing materials sources and a field study conducted with 20 industrial designers practicing in Turkey.

Zugl.: Darmstadt, Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 1996. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-110).

Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2010.

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Berlin.

Techn. University, Diss., 2003--Berlin.

Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2005--Aachen.

The thesis is focused on CNC machines. The theoretical part describes the historical development of CNC machines. A substantial part is devoted to CNC machine construction description. The elementary principles of CNC machine programming and NC code formation are described. There is a research of small commercially available CNC milling machines. Practical part deals with design and construction of small three axis CNC milling machine. Set of samples is machined for analysis of CNC router dimensional accuracy. CNC milling precision is evaluated in the end of the thesis. Recommended operating parameters machine improvement and modification possibilities are described.

This thesis examines topographical art depicting Scotland’s natural scenery and built environments, architecture, antiquities and signs of modern improvement, made during the period 1660 to 1820. It sets out to demonstrate that topography and topographical art was not exclusively antiquarian in nature, but ranged across various fields of learning and practice. It included the work of artists, geographers, cartographers, travel writers, poets, landscape gardeners, military surveyors, naturalists and historians who were concerned with representing the country’s varied, and often contentious, histories within an increasingly modernising present. The visual images that are considered here were forms of knowledge that found expression in drawings, paintings and engravings, elevations, views and plans. They were made on military surveys and picturesque tours, and were often intended to be included alongside written texts, both published and unpublished, frequently connecting with travels, tours, memoirs, essays and correspondence. It will also be argued that topography was a social practice, involving networks of artists, collectors, publishers and writers, who exchanged information in drawings and letters in a nationwide, and often increasingly commercial enterprise. This thesis will explore some of the strands of such a vast network of picture-making that existed in Scotland, and Britain, between 1660 and 1820, as visual images were circulated, copied, recycled and adapted, and topographical and antiquarian visual culture emerges as a complex, synoptic form of inquiry.

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