Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) [Hardcover]

Richard Budynas (Author), Keith Nisbett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0073529281 | ISBN-13: 978-0073529288 | Publication Date: January 29, 2010 | Edition: 9

Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design is intended for students beginning the study of mechanical engineering design. Students will find that the text inherently directs them into familiarity with both the basics of design decisions and the standards of industrial components. It combines the straightforward focus on fundamentals that instructors have come to expect, with a modern emphasis on design and new applications.

The ninth edition of Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design maintains the approach that has made this book the standard in machine design for nearly 50 years.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1104 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 9 edition (January 29, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073529281
• ISBN-13: 978-0073529288
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mechanical Engineering Students thoughts, November 27, 2010

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This review is from: Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) (Hardcover)

This book is good, but there are a number of problems that I have with it. First, the writing within the text is sometimes too dense, technical and not straight forward enough for the undergraduate engineering student, making it hard to read. Second, there are not enough footnotes and/or annotations for students to make connections between the different equations, which, in fact, do relate to each other. Last, there is the problem with application of gear design to CAD programs, which renders the chapter on gear design useless to the student. In short, this class is all about who is teaching from the text and not the text because of the flaws mentioned above.

However, the book does have concrete, clear examples of the application of properties and equations in the text.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good advanced Mechanics book, April 29, 2011

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This review is from: Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) (Hardcover)

This book is used for me for two different semesters. One for Solid Mechanics and one for Machine Design. The book it decent but it is no book by Hibbler. Some of the units in this book looked like it was wrote by two different people in two different countries.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Book Ever, January 18, 2011

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Dan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) (Hardcover)

Used this for two classes. Most frustrating book I've ever used. Machine design is a subject made of examples and this book never has enough. Whatever help this book might have to offer is always scattered, piecemeal, and incomplete. I seriously hate using this book. It also has mistakes in it. If your school uses this book, you should wait to take the class while petitioning them to switch to another text. I'm not sure what else is out there, but I don't believe it could be worse.