Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering

This book is mainly oriented at persons who have already taken or who are intending to take their engineering degree and who also possess quite certain awareness of the maths - commonly within the frames of the university curriculum. The readers are expected to have some acquaintance with such subject as as the materials strength, theory of elasticity and structural mechanics and also have some knowledge of the fundamental notions of the calculus of variations.

The author tried to restrict the requirements to the math skills of the readers and that is why he has not used in this publication the basics of tensor analysis even where the tensors would be relevant. The only thing readers are believed to know about is how to sum over the repeated indices. In brief, the publication is aimed at the practicing engineers rather than mathematicians. We would like to add here the senior students of engineering and also the researchers on this field, whose day-to-day activities are somehow connected with the engineering analysis.

The publication could be used both as a guidebook to the deeper study of the variational principles and applicable methods in solids mechanics and mechanics of structures, and also as a standalone manual for the engineers. The text content of the book is supplemented with almost hundred figures and twenty-eight informative data tables.

The main objective of the present publication is to provide the introduction to the various important aspects of the FEM, as applied to the different engineering problems in a systemized manner. The author of the book has made an excellent attempt to give all required technical details of the development of each associated technique as well as of the ideas from the fundamental principles.

The newly introduced concepts have been illustrated using the simple examples where possible. Several computer programs have also been covered together with the examples of their application to enable the students to properly understand the computer implementation, to solve the specific problems, and also to indicate the procedures for developing such programs. The readers who have spent some time with this volume will be able to get the understanding of the current literature of the FEM; in addition, they will also be able to develop some short and simple programs for the solution of the various engineering problems.

The content of the publication is based on the huge practical experience possessed by the author in teaching this course to the students of engineering. The readers are expected to have some basic idea of the matrix theory. The materials contained in the publication will also be found useful by practicing engineers and in fact anyone with the interest in engineering.

In this book, the authors have tried to apply a well-balanced materials-mechanics approach combined with the coverage of the recent technological developments in the fields of biologic and electronic materials; as a result, this new edition of the world popular textbook may be treated as one of the most modern and thorough publications available for the students.

In order to make sure that the learners have gained a proper understanding of the subject, the authors have presented the basic mechanisms operating at nano- and micro- levels across a very broad range of materials, in the mathematically simple and easy-to-follow way. Such integrated approach will provide readers with a conceptual presentation showing how exactly the microstructure of the materials is controlling their mechanical behavior.

The book is full of informative micrographs and colorful illustrations. In addition to that, the authors have included numerous exercises and live examples for better understanding. There are many empirical equations included in the content of the work. In fact, the book will be useful to all students regardless of their level due to the coverage of all fundamental concepts giving a comprehensive picture in this field, even though it is not intended to serve as an introductory text.

The book by Kemper Lewis and Jonathan Wickert will provide readers, especially students, with an excellent introduction to the emerging field of mechanical engineering that will give them due appreciation for how exactly mechanical engineers design the relevant hardware building and improving societies all around the planet. The theoretical part of the book is supplemented with so many illustrations, all of them are helpful and instructive.

The figures contained in the volume are not complicated, and such approach allows the book to be used by the beginner-level students, who will definitely get much better understanding of the basic concepts. The readers will like the level of the material included in the book and its layout. The publication includes numerous engineering problems and live examples; it explains mechanical engineering in both quantitative and qualitative sense and highlights the various technical principles; note that all the information is up-to-date. Overall, we would say that this volume is one of the best available for beginners, taking into account the way of presentation of the material.

Subject material has been divided into eight chapters covering the basics of the mechanical engineering and design, problem-solving and communication, forces acting in machines and structures, fluid engineering, materials/stresses, motion transmission, thermal/energy systems, power transmission. The appendices cover the Greek alphabet and review of the trigonometry. 

This completely revised and best-selling work is covering all latest way of analyzing different stress and creating vessels capable of surviving fatigue, shocks and high pressures, high temperatures and irradiation, as well as other hostile environments. The current release of the volume includes several new chapters dedicated to the residual stress, autofrettage vessels and influence of the Bauschinger effect, as adopted by ASME.

Among the other new areas, we would mention the design of various tubular elements and tube seats, and utilization of the PWHT, standing for the post-weld heat treatment, to effect the residual stress. The text of the publication is supplemented with numerous live examples of combined creep and fatigue, providing very valuable practical help. John Harvey, the author of this book, has also discussed the matter of extending the working life of the pressure vessels, together with the effective cost cutting ways with no quality sacrificed.

He has also updated the respond to the constantly increasing demand for the high strength and lightweight pressure vessels in various industries, including petroleum and chemical industries, in addition to the growing need for the vessels that could resist high pressures, for example ones expected in the subsea exploration, offshore drilling and mining of minerals. The volume will be found interesting by all engineers directly involved in the design, construction and further testing of the pressure vessels.

The present fourth release of the publication will provide all readers with a good combination of the practical overview of the design processes through the case materials and live engineering insights. The book worked by Ullman is the result of the efforts of a very innovative designer coming through quite consistently, and this approach has made this book so favorite with interested readers all around the planet.

The volume is conveying the idea of mechanical design and addresses topics of the traditional mechanical engineering plus several important and relevant issues taken from the real world, for example the visualization and teamwork matters, customer focus, creative thinking and others. The author has also addressed the financial matters of design alternatives in a very practical way. The current edition of the textbook features numerous new examples from today's industry as well as more than twenty templates to help readers in preparation of the consistent and complete assignments in the process of studying.

The author has provided a very easy-to-follow text in a detailed manner. The content commences with the established and proven tools and techniques and then the author proceeds to the specific and much more detailed methods of the conceptual development...

The declared purpose of the present handbook was to provide in a single book a ready and useful reference tool for the practicing engineers. The content of the volume has been arranged in a very comprehensive format being divided in thirty sections encompassing all related fields of engineering.

One of the main goals was to give readers the updated information in the classical engineering fields comprising mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering together with the materials science and mathematics.

The publication is intended to service the information and data needs of all engineering specialists involved in the real-life engineering practice. Another purpose of the authors was to replace a huge number of volumes with one exceptionally informative, perfectly organized and definitive source of fundamental engineering knowledge. The main focus has been made on the basic concepts, plus models and equations enabling engineers to perform a proper analysis, design and prediction of the behavior of different devices and systems, electrical circuits, fuels, computers etc.

They have summarized all important formulas and data with particular emphasis on the theories and concepts plus their application to various fields of engineering; the readers will find the fundamental engineering concepts explained, defined and illustrated in a proper order serving the practical needs.

And here is a nice practical work which was prepared and released to provide the students as well as practicing engineers and all specialists working in the field of structured mechanics/structural engineering with the technical background required to perform the proper transition from the basic theory to the practical design rules and implementation of the software.

The book starts with the fundamental structural stability principles together with the basic equations; the volume gives readers a concise but really comprehensive introduction applying the theory and principles of structural stability considered really fundamental for the structural steel design) to the practical solutions of design problems.

Among the special features of this title we would definitely note the classical solutions and equations, dual units with most part of the content being in non-dimensional format, detailed technical info on the design rules of the recognized specifications and codes, contemporary theories of stability together with the professional discussion; there are numerous completely worked examples and problems supplemented with the correct answers, many clear images plus informative data tables. The book is an excellent practical resource, offering its readers a proper understanding of the basic principles not only in the idealized system but also in the imperfect systems...