The latest trends kept on adding new subjects and new versions of old subjects. At present, Design, Analysis and Piping fall under the part of new subjects.
Design has made its entry a decade back into the core part of Mechanical Engineering and got itself manipulated in different forms , for eg Computer Aided Design (CAD) is one of the most familiar Technology these days.
Analysis is the technology used beyond design. Both Design and Analysis are interlinked in actual industry. Analysis is the integral study of an object or a particular compound. In the latest developments, there are a no of softwares available in the market to handle Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Techniques.
After these advancements, today, there is one more wing from the branch which is "PIPING".
Within industry, piping is a system of pipes used to convey fluids (liquids and gases) from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of fluid.
Industrial process piping (and accompanying in-line components) can be manufactured from wood, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic, copper, and concrete. The in-line components, known as fittings, valves, and other devices, typically sense and control the pressure, flow rate and temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included in the field of piping design. Piping systems are documented in Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams. If necessary, pipes can be cleaned by the tube cleaning process.
Plumbing is a piping system that most people are familiar with, as it constitutes the form of fluid transportation that is used to provide potable water and fuels to their homes and business. Plumbing pipes also remove waste in the form of sewage, and allow venting of sewage gases to the outdoors. Fire sprinkler systems also use piping, and may transport potable or nonpotable water, or other fire-suppression fluids.
Piping also has many other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-processed fluids for refining into more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of construction are titanium, chrome-moly and various other steel alloys.
Also, beyond these Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is one more advancement which also has a bright future.Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is one of the branches of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the millions of calculations required to simulate the interaction of fluids and gases with the complex surfaces used in engineering. Even with simplified equations and high-speed supercomputers, only approximate solutions can be achieved in many cases. Ongoing research, however, may yield software that improves the accuracy and speed of complex simulation scenarios such as transonic or turbulent flows. Initial validation of such software is often performed using a wind tunnel with the final validation coming in flight test.
Piping and CFD are the newer advancements which are not yet fully fledged in the industry and they have a very bright future in the next decades.
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