Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering

The popular classic handbook. As the title of the book implies, it is dealing with the engineering calculations. The main content is arranged is seven big parts. The first two parts are dedicated to the civil and architectural engineering; these are followed by three parts dealing with the mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering. The body of the handbook closes with the parts covering the water/waste-water and environmental engineering.

Among the topics dealt with in the present handbook there are such the important topics as structural steel design, reinforced concrete, hangers and connectors, as well as wind-stress analysis, drainage and plumbing, heating and ventilation, air conditioning, metalworking, machine design and associated analysis, engines, power generation, air and gas compressors, vacuum systems, handling of materials, piping and pumping arrangements and systems, refrigeration, heat transfer, heat exchangers, conservation of the energy, electrical installations, cables, circuits, and all associated electrical equipment, process plant engineering, chemical engineering, sewage treatment, environmental issues.

Needless to say that the content of this revised edition of the volume will definitely be of great use to all technical people, starting from the students in relevant fields of engineering and up to the specialists and experts, as it is a really excellent reference tool. 

This book has been written by Graham Kelly and demonstrates the great experience of the author and should be highly recommended for everyone studying vibration mechanics. The content of this volume will be providing them all with the clear explanations. The author has taken the applications-based approach implying the application of the engineering principles learnt by the students earlier while constructing a basis for the engineering design.

The volume is providing reader with a brief technical review of the fundamental principles of dynamics keeping the notation and terminology consistent and applying the principles to derive math models of the dynamic systems. The above stated methods of application are consistent with the common dynamic texts. Numerous practical plus valuable pedagogical features are included in the text with the intention to aid the readers with retention and comprehension. For example, such features include the developments of the major benchmark problems, namely three of them, revisited in each of the chapters and making up the coherent chain that links all chapters of the publication.

The learning outcomes have also been included in the book, together with the key summaries, formulae and equations, many solved examples with the emphasis made on the real examples, set of practical exercises etc.

This nice textbook has been mainly aimed at the students in various fields of the mechanical engineering, and especially ones at the beginner-graduate level, plus in other engineering disciplines, who are trying to get some proper training in dynamics applied to the engineering mechanisms. In his publication Roger Hans has introduced the formal math development of the Lagranjan mechanics, together with the corollaries, solving several engineering applications.

His initial goal was to ingrain a due technical understanding of the fundamental physics that is actually required for the engineering dynamics, providing, in the meantime, the working algorithm to be used for the simulation of various engineering mechanisms, for example robots. The volume is pretty self-contained and this approach has made it readily available and useful for all practicing engineers with the interest in this area.

The author has made the materials that are contained in this volume very accessible to the broadest possible auditors using many solved examples plus diagrams applying the main addressed principles to the real life engineering applications. The Lagranjan mechanics has been discussed straight in the context of the engineering applications. The content of this book also includes numerous supplementary materials included for easier understanding of the theoretical part.​

In a past couple of decades the great progress could be observed in the fields of the hydrodynamic stability, mostly owing to the math modeling and numerical simulation efforts on the basis of the several established computational and analytical methods. The subject of the hydrodynamic stability carries the critical significance in fluid mechanics plus its practical applications in engineering as well as numerous sciences, including the environmental and geophysical sciences.

And, one of the critically important problems of hydrodynamic stability is the potential instabilities together with their sequences of transition towards the regime of turbulence. The actual first motivation for preparation of this publication was the serious interest that was expressed by numerous invited experts participated in the Fourteenth World Congress of the IMACA. The content of this volume has been developed from the documents that have been submitted by the recognized and world respected specialists working in the fields of applied mathematics, and the scientists dealing with all above mentioned matters, they have all valuably contributed to the several important aspects of simulation and also numerical modeling as applied to the hydrodynamic stability. This volume is bringing together all current theoretical/practical advances...

The present publication has already been deservedly considered to be one of the world leading books on turbomachinery, owing to its comprehensive and well-balanced coverage of theory as well as of the practical applications. The content of the volume starts with the explanation of the basic background technical principles in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics; then, the authors of the volume included a discussion of the compressors and axial-flow turbines, plus other associated equipment, such as the radial-flow gas and hydraulic turbines, centrifugal pumps and wind turbines.

Note that this is a new edition of the publication, providing even wider coverage of the contemporary approached to the design and analysis, including the FEA/CFD techniques. This book will be very practical when used as the core text material by the students at all levels. It shall also be noted that the authors have addressed virtually all modern computational and numerical tools. There are numerous exercises and worked examples included in the book to supplement the text, which in turn is easy-to-follow, making it so popular. All of the technical concepts have been explained very clearly. Have a look in this one and you will definitely find lots of useful information inside.

The book has been primarily designed to serve as a complete program of learning for the well known and maybe the most popular in the world mechanical engineering course for the students. The materials included in this title has been structured in a remarkably easy-to-follow manner; the text part has been supplemented with such the important features as the key points/activity panels, test questions etc. making this volume an excellent resource for both self-studying and classroom training.

The author is a practicing lecturer with a great practical experience in the subject field. Alan Darbyshire has successfully adopted a common format and good approach throughout this publication. The book starts with a opening chapter which covers the main and core Mechanical Principles unit considered basic for the BTEC degree in mechanical engineering. The first of the chapters address the mechanical technology as well as different engineering materials,  thermodynamics, mechanical technology and fluid mechanics, further principles of mechanical engineering, etc.

The text questions are thoroughly interspersed with the main content of the present volume, and this approach would allow all readers to check their understanding of the training material and provide them with a practical opportunity to exactly reflect what they have learnt.​​

The publication by Parviz Ghavami has been framed within the processes of the engineering design and analysis, presenting the concepts in material mechanics for the students of engineering technology and related fields. The content of the book will definitely help readers, especially practicing engineers and technicians from different disciplines to apply the modern concepts of engineering mechanics for design and analysis of materials and structure as well as of the machine components, using the laws and principles of physics, mechanics and the basics of engineering.

The publication is deservedly considered an ideal one for those who are in search of a rigorous text on this subject. The book is elucidating all important concepts of mechanics, such as the strain and stress, moment of inertia, systems of forces acting on structures, shear/bending moments in a beam without actual requirement for the background in calculus; it is also illustrating the influence of the mechanical properties of different materials and the author has used the real-life engineering problems for that purpose.

The book is intended to serve as a very valuable reference for students and professionals who seek the state licensing in engineering and includes several useful appendices of the standard mechanical properties, data diagrams and formulas required for the design and associated calculations...

The present book contains seventeen selected articles that have been derived from the documents presented in the course of the XVIII Euromech Colloquim dedicated to this problem and held some years ago. Nowadays, the science of damage mechanics is at quite high level of maturity and it is used for the numerous practical applications related to the various techniques of numerical simulation.

There have been many attempts made in building the effective numerical instruments for the simulation of the damage initiation and its further growth in the different mechanical structures under the small/large deformation hypotheses. The main objective of the subject colloquium was to gather the very latest technological developments and advances in the numerical/computational aspects of the damage mechanics, together with the simulation of the current researches and challenged in the field expected in the future. The author of the volume is inviting the readers to perform their own explorations and hopes that all of them will find this volume very interesting, practical, and what is the most important, stimulating further research work in this area.

Among the topics covered there are gradient damage formulation, ductile damage, non-local damage models, modeling of the 3D anisotropic damage, energy dissipation, finite elastoplasticity, ductile rupture, necking phenomenon, aluminum materials, vibration tests and so many other important topics.