Böcker i Mechanical Engineering-serien

Featuring a question-and-answer format, this title provides simplified means of solving nearly 200 problems that confront engineers involved in the planning, operation and maintenance of steam plant systems. It provides calculations pertaining to emissions, boiler efficiency, circulation and heat transfer equipment design and performance.

Describes the various seal types used in industry for rotating, oscillating and reciprocating shaft applications. This work details the practices for radial shaft seal selection, testing and installation recommended by the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Rubber Manufacture's Association, and the American Society for Testing and Materials.

Compiling practical recommendations gleaned from more than 20 years of professional experience, this book provides numerous examples from field authorities that illustrate valuable concepts and approaches employed in the application of target costing to large-scale manufacturing operations.

Presents the constructive and operational aspects of equipment used in combustion and gasification of solid fuels such as coal, biomass, and solid residues. This title details basic aspects of solid and gas combustion phenomena, which are essential to improvements and optimized design in existing boilers and gasifiers.

Offers information helpful to develop a successful micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) design. This work explains the design process by illustrating the range of issues involved, how they are interrelated, and how they can be quickly and accurately addressed.

Covers the behaviour of polymers with regard to material variables and test and use conditions. This book highlights general principles, useful empirical rules and practical equations. Detailing the specific behaviour of many common polymers, it places emphasis on time and frequency dependence over temperature dependence.

This book presents to the design engineer the transducers and measurement techniques available, and evaluates their features and drawbacks. It is written for the instrument and systems designer, not the theoretician.

This book presents general computer definitions and abbreviations as well as application-specification terminology related to the world of CAD/CAM in alphabetical order.

This book focuses on the most important applications of fabric filtration: environmental protection, particulate control from combustion sources. It summarises the types of fibers and their properties and gives an overview of textile processing.

Fundamentals of Robotics presents the basic concepts of robots to engineering and technology students and to practicing engineers who want to grasp the fundamentals in the growing field of robotics.

This book emphasizes the importance of consistent, well-planned, and computer-oriented engineering documentation systems to engineering, manufacturing, and accounting. It discusses the systems needed to optimize flow of information and increase the efficiency of modern CAD/CAM systems.

"Analyzes a wide range of problem classes originating in applied mechanics, stressing the use of influence (Green's) functions in their analysis. Provides an extensive list of influence functions and matrices-several in print for the first time. Addresses areas such as fluid flow, acoustics, electromagnetism, heat transfer, and elasticity."

This book is a useful reference work for practicing engineers in their evaluation and design of systems for the control of the industrial in-plant environment. It provides design criteria, useful calculations and proven techniques to control the environment in oil refineries and chemical industries.

Describes the technology necessary to optimize the performance of any refractory lining. This work provides an overview of the thermomechanical behaviour and wear of refractory lining systems. It details the structural behaviour of several classical refractory geometries, highlighting the critical regions of various lining systems.

." . .a welcome addition to the field of measurement science. . . The. . .presentation of this book is good, with clear text and an excellent use of diagrams. . . . . .a suitable textbook for an undergraduate course on the subject. . .graduate engineers will find much of interest. . .it should find a place on many bookshelves." ---Measurement Science and Technology

Featuring over 225 boiler/HRSG operation and design problems, this book covers steam generators and related systems used in process plants, refineries, chemical plants, electrical utilities, and other industrial settings. It also emphasizes the thermal engineering aspects.

Explains vessel manufacture and procedures for quality assurance and control, methods for code specification compliance, various stages of the manufacturing process, and promotes uniformity of inspection, testing, and documentation. This work discusses NDT, heat treatment, and pad air and hydrostatic tests.

This compact, on-the-job handbook provides all the practical and theoreticalinformation to design elastomeric O-ring seals for the full range of static,reciprocating, and rotary functions

This is the more practical approach to engineering mechanics that deals mainly withtwo-dimensional problems, since these comprise the great majority of engineering situationsand are the necessary foundation for good design practice

Presents the application of engineering design and analysis based on the approach of understanding the physical characteristics of a given problem and then modeling the important aspects of the physical system. This book covers such topics as contact stress analysis, singularity functions, gear stresses, fasteners, shafts, and shaft stresses.

Covers the basics of modeling, each of the five basic alignment methods, and electro-optic measurement methods. This book reflects findings in such areas as offline to running machinery movements. It also explores bore and parallel alignment.

This book guides designers, process engineers, or mechanics to select and use anaerobic machinery adhesives for sealing flanged joints, designing threaded connections for security and sealing, and designing adhesive assists for more durable shrink, press, and slip fitted assemblies.

Offers comprehensive information on the design and behavior of non-gasketed bolted joints. This book features a chapter on ways to control preload including the developments in ultrasonic and stretch control. It also features a materials chapter as well as sections on structural steel joins, airframe joints, and vibration resistance fasteners.

Offers a perspective on composites in terms of mechanics, characteristics, test methods, applications, manufacturing processes, and design aspects. The book highlights developed materials such as nanocomposites and smart materials.

Provides a reference for the day-to-day problems encountered with heat, mass, or momentum transfer. Examining various analytical methods with several examples for each method, every chapter in this book uses a simple three-digit code to designate the order of the differential equation, and, the amount of independent variables involved.

Written for plant and design engineers involved with centrifugal pumps, this title covers centrifugal pumps.

Offers an introduction to the principles of applied thermochemical energy conversion, as well as numerous instances of practical application to a variety of chemical heat engines and waste destruction systems.

Summarizes information on all aspects of metallic zinc and gives references to additional source material, including major books and reviews. At the heart of the reference are 16 chapters that cover coatings and electrochemical protection of steel by zinc. Other chapters address: occurrence and prod

This book presents practical gearbox design and application information to individuals responsible for the specification and operation of mechanical systems incorporating gear drives. It focuses on parallel shaft and planetary units using spur and helical gearing.