Engine Operating Instructions - Total Index Book A/B/C, Introduction, Safety Instructions; Technical Engine Data - Governor Data, Working Pressures of Auxiliary Equipment, Temperatures of Operating Media, Torsional Vibration Analysis, Acceptance Test Records; Operating Instructions - Table of Contents, Introduction, Safety Instructions, Instructions for Heavy Fuel Operation, Initial Operation, Operational Supervision, Removal from Operation, Danger of Frost, Running-in, Fault Tracing, Emergency Operation; Operating Media - Regulations and Care; Maintenance; Tools; Spare Parts Catalogue; Stand-by Parts; External Documentation.

This perfect handbook will help all interested readers save their time owing to the pretty common-sense and direct techniques providing a quick and accurate real-life solutions to all engineering problems. The author of the publication has managed to assemble a huge number of practical shortcuts together with the associated calculations, supplemented with the concise reviews in a single volume.

The book will serve as an excellent reference tool for the people involved in any field of mechanical engineering. The material presented in the book has been compiled on the basis of the invaluable contributions made by the mechanical engineering experts. The readers will find the easy-to-understand technical descriptions of all aspects of engineering and also get familiarized with the equipment. The book is recommended to anyone from students to specialists because of the remarkably broad coverage and presentation. The volume is absolutely full of the fundamental theoretical info, methods for quick calculation, informative illustrations and data diagrams.

The content consists of sixteen chapters covering everything that would be expected to make the volume practically useful for the engineers. The author has also included the chapters on vibration and fatigue, and there is even a separate chapter fully dedicated to the engineering economics.

Today, we are all surrounded with the very sophisticated computerized gadgets; however, we still consider it some sort of fascination to put together a few electrical resistors, odd transistor and capacitors in order to build a very simple electronic circuit. Well, it is very surprising how a handful of simple components can function together, and building a circuit yourself brings a true satisfaction which is incalculable.

This publication has initially been intended to provide its readers with numerous electronic and radio projects - some of those projects would take just few minutes but others may take much longer to construct. The author describes some popular and effective construction techniques, again from the simplest to quite complex projects.

The projects presented in this book have originally been published by the Radio Society of Great Britain, and were proven to be quite useful and straightforward, with the emphasis of the authors being made on the practicality. Most of the projects have been backed with mini-tutorials of the components they consist of, and concepts that have been employed in their design and construction. Any reader of this book will enjoy the hours spent reading it and will increase the knowledge of how and why the circuits work...

The ultimate purpose of this Handbook was to provide people with a good reference book that would summarize the core engineering knowledge serving as the basis of electronics and radio. The author made the particular emphasis on thoroughness.

More than 2000 of technical articles have been reviewed in the course of the preparation, and the publication in its final form presents in a perfectly organized way the more important contributions that have been made to the art by this vast body of tech literature. In the selection of material an attempt has been made to avoid the common failing of most handbooks, which instead of summarizing all of the important facts about a topic, and bringing together formulas and procedures useful in actual design, too often devote most of the available space to introductory material, such as found in good textbooks, and to descriptions of particular equipments.

The text is well documented, there being about fifteen hundred footnote references to published articles. Practically all the pertinent engineering literature in English that bears on any particular subject is referred, to in connection with the text on that subject. The reader who wishes to make an intensive study of a particular topic is thus in most cases spared the necessity of engaging in a time-consuming search through many indexes to find out what has been published.

At the same time, the essential information, formulas, etc., are insofar as possible included in this book. The reader, therefore, does not need to have an entire library within arm's reach in order to obtain the answer to most problems, and yet knows just where to go for further information.​

This handbook is worldwide treated as one of the best available reference sources providing all necessary info related to the pumps and all related components of the associated pumping systems and it has been highly recommended to anyone who requires a really comprehensive resource on pumping arrangements.

The publication is indeed very informative and should definitely be considered a "must-have" volume aimed to all personnel dealing with the operation as well as periodical maintenance of pumps and their systems. It will most probably cover any question or problem that you may face when dealing with the pumps.

This one presents a major and updated revision of the classic pump handbook published some time ago with the ultimate author's intention to provide all interested parties with the practical data and important "know-how" on the pump design, their specification, selection and purchasing, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting, covering virtually all types of pumps.

That is why it is an essential working tool for all mechanical engineers representing many industries. The material presented in the publication is mainly based on the valuable contribution of more seventy industry professionals and recommend it to anyone willing to get or refresh the technical knowledge of the pumps together with the equipment and systems.

The present reference book was specifically prepared and released for the ultimate purpose of making various mathematical formulas and technical data, as well as methods of design and construction of the pressure vessels that are available for all involved people, including designers, detailers and all other professionals dealing mainly with the pressure vessels.

Subject specialists often experience serious difficulties when trying to find the required technical data and solutions because subject information is usually scattered throughout different books. The ultimate aim of the author was to bring together all required material in a single volume and present subject info in a form convenient to the end user. The author has also excluded some of the information that is not required or is required very rarely, in order to provide the maximum serviceability and reader-friendliness to the book - such approach affected the special construction methods and seldom occurring loadings.

Please note that the handbook is only dealing with the pressure vessels that are made of the ferrous material by means of welding - in fact, most of the pressure vessels fall under this category. Most of the material contained in the book has been taken from the other relevant works, re-worked and arranged in more convenient way.

And this is the third part of volume of the set of Naval Architecture books (Part 1 and Part 2 here), and the present volume is dedicated to the motion of ships in waves and their controllability, i.e. the last two chapters of the course. Taking into account the importance of all recent theoretical and also experimental developments in the subject fields, the authors considered it necessary to fully rewrite the content of both those chapters and to add a great portion of the new material.

The chapter on motion in waves covers such the important aspects as the characteristics ocean waves, their origin and propagation, responses of the vessel to the ocean waves, ships in the seaways, derived responses and ship motion control, assessment of the ship seaway performance, various aspects of design, and relevant nomenclature. The chapter covering the controllability addresses the control loop together with the basic equations of ship motion. stability and associated linear equations, stability and control, turning ability, controls-fixed stability and coursekeeping, hydraulic models, free-running tests, non-linear motion equations, acceleration/stopping/backing, hydrodynamic coefficients, auto-control systems, waterway interactions, performance requirements, design applications, special symbols, control devices and many other critically important topics.

The second part of the set (here are Part 1 and Part 3). This books addresses the ship resistance, ship propulsion and ship vibration. The ship resistance-related chapter provides all necessary theoretical information of the resistance types, surface vessels and submerged objects, dimensional analysis, frictional and wave-making resistance, plus other resistance components, use of the models for determination of the hull resistance, presentation of the model resistance data, HSC and advanced marine vehicles, and relation of the ship hull form to its resistance.

The propulsion-related chapter deals with the powering of vessels, propeller action theory, similitude law, self-propulsion tests, geometry of the screw propellers, interaction between ship's hull and propeller, cavitation, ducted propellers, various design matters, standardization trials and other devices for ship propulsion. Finally, the chapter covering the ship vibration provides the general information on the subject, covering the fundamental theoretical concepts, analysis and design issues including diesel engine and propeller excitation, applicable criteria and associated measurements, and other topics. The separate part of the volume has been dedicated to the nomenclature used throughout the book and in naval architecture, in general.