Mechanical category: 2199 books
by Shawna E. Lockhart, Marla Goodman, Cindy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This is a clear, comprehensive, full-color introduction and reference for students and professionals who are creating engineering drawings and graphics with CAD software or by hand. It provides excellent technical detail and motivating real-world examples, illuminating theory with a colorful, highly-visual...
by Cesare Hall, Ph.D., S. Larry Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Turbomachinery is a challenging and diverse field, with applications for professionals and students in many subsets of the mechanical engineering discipline, including fluid mechanics, combustion and heat transfer, dynamics and vibrations, as well as structural mechanics and materials engineering....
Solid Mechanics
A Variational Approach, Augmented Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Solid Mechanics: A Variational Approach, Augmented Edition presents a lucid and thoroughly developed approach to solid mechanics for students engaged in the study of elastic structures not seen in other texts currently on the market. This work offers a clear and carefully prepared exposition of variational...
by Robert L. Mott, Joseph A. Untener
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
APPLIED STRENGTH OF MATERIALS 6/e, SI Units Version provides coverage of basic strength of materials for students in Engineering Technology (4-yr and 2-yr) and uses only SI units. Emphasizing applications, problem solving, design of structural members, mechanical devices and systems, the book has...
Tribological Processes in the Valve Train Systems with Lightweight Valves
New Research and Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Tribological Processes in Valvetrain Systems with Lightweight Valves: New Research and Modelling provides readers with the latest methodologies to reduce friction and wear in valvetrain systems—a severe problem for designers and manufacturers. The solution is achieved by identifying the tribological...
Electrical Contacts
Fundamentals, Applications and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Various factors affect the performance of electrical contacts, including tribological, mechanical, electrical, and materials aspects. Although these behaviors have been studied for many years, they are not widely used or understood in practice. Combining approaches used across the globe, Electrical...
Direct Methods for Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Structures
Advanced Computational Algorithms and Material Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Articles in this book examine various materials and how to determine directly the limit state of a structure, in the sense of limit analysis and shakedown analysis. Apart from classical applications in mechanical and civil engineering contexts, the book reports on the emerging field of material design...
by Saad A. Ragab, Hassan E. Fayed
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Finite Element Analysis for Engineers introduces FEA as a technique for solving differential equations, and for application to problems in Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Science & Mechanics. Intended primarily for senior and first-year graduate students,...
Singularities of Robot Mechanisms
Numerical Computation and Avoidance Path Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book presents the singular configurations associated with a robot mechanism, together with robust methods for their computation, interpretation, and avoidance path planning. Having such methods is essential as singularities generally pose problems to the normal operation of a robot, but also...
Fractional Order Systems
Optimization, Control, Circuit Realizations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Fractional Order Systems: Optimization, Control, Circuit Realizations and Applications consists of 21 contributed chapters by subject experts. Chapters offer practical solutions and novel methods for recent research problems in the multidisciplinary applications of fractional order systems, such as...
Heat Transfer Modeling
An Inductive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This innovative text emphasizes a "less-is-more" approach to modeling complicated systems such as heat transfer by treating them first as "1-node lumped models" that yield simple closed-form solutions. The author develops numerical techniques for students to obtain more detail,...
Theory and Practice of Gearing and Transmissions
In Honor of Professor Faydor L. Litvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book brings together papers from all spheres of mechanical engineering related to gears and transmissions, from fundamentals to advanced applications, from academic results in numerical and experimental research, to new approaches to gear design and aspects of their optimization synthesis and...
Materials and Surface Engineering
Research and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This book, the second in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, is a collection of high quality articles (full research articles, review articles, and cases studies) with a special emphasis on research and development materials and surface engineering and its applications....
Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems
Theory And Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
A unique approach to the study of geothermal energy systems
This book takes a unique, holistic approach to the interdisciplinary study of geothermal energy systems, combining low, medium, and high temperature applications into a logical order. The emphasis is on the concept that all geothermal...