Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering

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...

Here is another title belonging to the world popular Demystified series intended to offer readers a practical coverage of the important and complex course of statics and dynamics. Written by the expert in the field, David McMahon, has followed the standard learning curriculum. The content of the book will discover how exactly the forces affect different objects both in motion and at rest, and will be easily understood even by the people without formal training in the field - they will all be offered a very effective and even entertaining way of learning this basic engineering topic.

The book starts with a review of the vector calculus, followed by the chapters covering the gravity and forces, as well as friction and moment of inertia. After that, the readers will proceed to the dynamics, starting with the basic fundamentals of the particles, rotation and circular motion, power and energy, work and vibrational motion. The main content concludes with the introduction to Hamiltonian and Lagrangian methods.

The volume will give you hundreds of worked examples provided with the solutions, perfectly explained theory of statics and dynamics without any unnecessary and complicated technical jargon used, and the final examination at the end. The book is simply enough for the beginners.

The book offers a perfect presentation of the machining of spindles, but there also some useful information on selection of the bearings, spindle mounts, internal tapers and other important aspects. The content is well-written and illustrated, and also supplemented with the examples, so it will definitely be very easily understood by the readers regardless of their level of technical knowledge.

Numerous live examples of the spindles have been provided together with the detailed procedures and practical tips. There is some bonus material included by the author and addressing the thread cutting, lathe alignment and some other relevant information. This book shall be treated as a very practical source for all people involved in the design of the spindles, building tool post grinders, special applications or just willing to learn a bit more about the correct using of the lathe.

All plans and instructions contained in the publication are very clear and, what is also very important, are all do-able. A really decent volume presenting a listing of the designs tested by the author and provided with the drawings. However, the author has decided not to go too deep into the theory of the spindle design. This volume is considered the ideal one for the beginners in the field.

The word "motors" used in the title of the present book, is representing a diverse and quite complicated topic. Nowadays, there are so many different motor types, and numerous methods exist to convert the electrical energy into the rotating mechanical one through the electromagnetism. The main focus has been made on the understanding of the theory of the single- and three-phase induction motors, commonly used control circuit schemes, reading and proper interpretation as well as documenting of the associated control circuit diagrams.

Steve Senty, who is the author of the volume, has also tried to provide readers with the practice circuits used for the connection of the actual circuit components from the ladder diagrams. Since the single- and three-phase induction motors constitute the vast majority of the motors encountered by the construction engineers in the field, the author has decided to focus on them; in addition, the content has been confined to the basic one required for the beginners to understand the motors and controls plus to build the strong technical knowledge basis.

The list of topics covered in the book includes the theory of the electromagnetic induction, overview of the motors, magnetic relays, overload units, contactors, motor starters and starter circuits, two- and three-wire motor control, VFD principles, nameplates and others.

To make a good and well-fastened assembly, their proper design and quality parts as well as the proper execution of the assembly procedures are required. This book will provide readers with thorough understanding of the mechanical joining and fastening and will also give the assembly information. The content of the publication is a compilation of the experience of James Speck, the author, in the present field.

This is a second edition of the book addressing the latest technological trends and looking at the current technologies of fastening that are used in key areas of the industry. The author is explaining the fastening function in detail and he is also describing various established effective approaches to the fastening. The text of the book has been expanded and revised to include the review and presentation of the fastened components, paying particular attention to the design and assembly, together with the manufacturing and subsequent installation of fastener products.

Among the topics covered within the book there are vibration issues, special materials, environmental factors, joining applications. The theory is supplemented with the numerous reference data charts for illustration. The readers will be provided with a thorough review of the engineering basics and all in fact all information required.