Mark's Calculations For Machine Design [Hardcover]

Thomas Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071436898 | ISBN-13: 978-0071436892 | Publication Date: March 1, 2005 | Edition: 1

Everyday Engineers must solve some of the most difficult design problems and often with little time and money to spare. It was with this in mind that this book was designed. Based on the best selling Mark’s Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Mark’s Standard Engineering Calculations For Machine Design offers a detailed treatment of topics in statics, friction, kinematics, dynamics, energy relations, impulse and momentum, systems of particles, variable mass systems, and three-dimensional rigid body analysis. Among the advanced topics are spherical coordinates, shear modulus tangential unit vector tension, deformable media, and torsion (twisting).

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From the Back Cover

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MACHINE DESIGN CALCULATIONS

This information-packed reference is the perfect bridge between the principles outlined in textbooks and the challenges of engineering practice. Engineer and educator Thomas H. Brown, Jr.'s new book offers problem-solving techniques, formulas, and tabular data in a convenient, quick lookup format. Developed and expanded out of material in McGraw-Hill's best-selling Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, this unique resource provides complete step-by-step help with:

• Basic to advanced calculation procedures
• Examples of solved problems in both U.S. customary and SI/metric units
• Calculations for fundamental, advanced, and combined loadings on machine elements
• Problem-solving techniques and calculations for static and dynamic design, including fatigue and column buckling
• Advanced problems for bolted and welded connections, springs, flywheels, gear trains, and more
• Easy-to-use tables, charts, listings, and formulas

JOB-SIMPLIFYING CONTENT
Axial Loading * Torsion * Bending * Beams: Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams with Deflection Formulas * Pressure Loading: Thin- and Thick-Walled Vessels, Press-Shrink Fit * Contact Loading: Spherical and Cylindrical Geometries * High-Speed Rotational Loading * Combined Loadings * Principal Stresses and Mohr's Circle * Static Design Criteria: Ductile to Brittle Materials * Fatigue and Dynamic Design Criteria: Finite and Infinite Life * Bolted Connections * Welded Connections * Springs * Flywheels * Linkages * Gear Trains: Spur and Planetary Arrangements * Wheels and Flywheels

About the Author

Thomas H. Brown, Jr., Ph.D., PE, manages the Fundamentals of Engineering Review Program and the Civil Engineering Professional Engineering Review Program at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University. Dr. Brown has taught review courses for the Mechanical Engineering Professional Engineering Review Program offered by the Industrial Extension Service and taught undergraduate machine design courses for almost a dozen years in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, both in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 445 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071436898
• ISBN-13: 978-0071436892
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,170,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, textbook and reference., July 24, 2007

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Samson E. Mkrtchyan (LA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mark's Calculations For Machine Design (Hardcover)

This book is so far one of the best technical books, I've ever had.
The material is so well presented and organized, that it is hard to find in any other books.
The author has presented the material with clarity, conciseness and problems that logically follow the material.
It is a very good material for mechanical engineers preparing in Machine Design portion of PE exam.

I hope the author has in mind to create books like this for ohter mechanical engineering related disciplines, like thermo and fluids.

I'd say this is a must book for every single mechanical engineer.

5.0 out of 5 stars Who writes rave reviews for calculations?, March 27, 2011

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Harold M. Curtis "gladmech" (Douglasville, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mark's Calculations For Machine Design (Hardcover)

Who writes rave reviews for a book of calculations. Well, apparently, I do.

In school, I never had any trouble with the work, but I always lost credit for failure to show my work. If I made a mistake, I would never get partial credit for showing my work -- especially my units.

I am in a job that requires extensive documentation of every engineering decision. I am REQUIRED to show my work. I can't just 'know' that something is all right, I have to prove it.

Mark's makes showing your work a delight. Each calculation is extremely well presented in an easy to follow, step by step presentation. It is, in fact, presented in the same worked out format that a typical calculation sheet would be. Even better -- it has metric AND AMERICAN examples. Hey textbook writers! WE are still in the United States here! HELLO!

By the same people who gave us Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, and even more indispensable. I took 3 or 5 other books back home.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Technical Reference for Students and Professors, December 27, 2010

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This review is from: Mark's Calculations For Machine Design (Hardcover)

This book is an excellent reference Machine Design, Materials and Materials Strength. The context is appropriate to both sides of academy, to those students who want a powerful tool, adding knowledge on these disciplines or even to professors which can take advantage of the theory simpler given. Complementary exercises are an interesting plus to guide to robustness. In the Professor's case, he can teach simple and open up for questionings which rise up, those which can be explored deeper by the professor's knowledge.