Product Description

Save time with this collection of straightforward, common-sense techniques that provide quick, accurate solutions to your engineering problems.

Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers assembles hundreds of shortcuts, calculations, practical "how-to" methods, and concise background reviews into one convenient volume.

Whether you're concerned with design, selection, or performance, you'll find fast, accurate answers here - all without wading through pages of theory.

Experts from all engineering disciplines have packed this book's sixteen chapters with design criteria and practical tips. You'll find easy-to-read descriptions on fluids, heat transfer, thermodynamics, seals, pumps, and compressors, drivers, gears, and bearings, as well as piping and pressure vessels.
Also covers tribology, vibrations, materials, stress and fatigue, instrumentation, and engineering economics.

* Save time with this collection of straightforward, common-sense techniques that provide quick, accurate solutions to your engineering problems.

* Hundreds of shortcuts, calculations and practical "how-to" methods in one convenient volume.

* Fast, accurate answers to design, selection, or performance issues.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #503950 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 406 pages

Customer Reviews

A quick reference to solve everyday problems in Mechanical Engineering
Practical solutions for mechanical engineers should have been the title of this book. The book is full of fundamental information, principles, quick calculations methods, illustrations, and diagrams, that will save the industrial practitioner valuable time.

If you travel for work always take this handy reference with you. I believe this book will also be useful for the student of Mechanical Engineering.

I own this book, as well as Carl. Branan "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers". If you work in the process industries, these two books will proof to be an invaluable aid to analyze and solve operational problems that affect process equipment performance.

Succinct and valuable book
I'd recommend this book for anyone ranging from students to the working class. Am currently a student and was very pleasantly surprised to find valuable nuggets of information inside the book. Covers thermodynamics, fluid, vibration, heat transfer and probably just about anything a mechanical engineer/engineering student wants to know about.

Mechanical solutions
A great and easy book to find out mechnical solutions and definitions for the daily work of an engineer