Reference Books
Reference Books
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I don't know about you guys, but I sold all my books during college. I figured once I got a job I could buy only the needed books.
So I'm in need of some reference books. I don't think it's necessary to buy all the latest additions at the high prices. I was wondering if you guys kept a list somewhere of recommended reference books?
I’m just looking for some basic books to get my collection started…statics, thermo, materials, hvac all the basic stuff.
I'm an engineer in the chicken buisness. I deal with little bits of everything. If I need to get more in depth I'll look more closely at the books, I just need so good old basic reference books.
So I'm in need of some reference books. I don't think it's necessary to buy all the latest additions at the high prices. I was wondering if you guys kept a list somewhere of recommended reference books?
I’m just looking for some basic books to get my collection started…statics, thermo, materials, hvac all the basic stuff.
I'm an engineer in the chicken buisness. I deal with little bits of everything. If I need to get more in depth I'll look more closely at the books, I just need so good old basic reference books.





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Best to ya,
Old Dave
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cheers
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Mark's Std. HB for Mech. Eng'rs
Machine Design by Norton
Structural Analysis by Hibbler
Engineering Mathematics Handbook by Tuma
Pressure Vessel handbook by Megsevy
Formulas for Stress and Strain by Roark
Advanced Mechanics of Materials by Seeley and Smith
Fluid Mechanics by Finnemore and Franzini
Metals Properties (an ASME Handbook)
Engineering Design by Faupel and Fisher
Design of Process Equipment by Mahajan
Petroleum Production Handbook by Frick
Design of Piping Systems by M. W. Kellogg
Practical Use of Mathcad by Benker
Theories of Plates and Shells by Timoshenko
Strength of Materials Vols 1 & 2 by Timoshenko
Elastic Plates by Marguerre and Woernle
Floating Drilling Equipment and its Use by Sheffield
DowneastTech
Mechanical Engineer
Magnus R & D, Cypress, TX
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Hope this does not violate the promo rule.
Barry1961
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"Handbook of Chemistry and Physics" by CRC
"Engineering Fluid Mechanics", Robeson & Crowe
Parker O-ring Handbook
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Membership of an Institution such as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK or Institution of Engineers Australia gets you a subscription to a limited range of books as part of being a member. I am not sure about ASME, AWWA or other US institutions.
So for a yearly memebership fee with the benefits that brings you would also get access to the books you need. Youu also save on shelf space and get to access the books from any web enabled computer. So if you work in different offices as I do its great. The other benefit is you can cut and paste into reports text, graphs, figues and the like.
I have access to over three hundred books on line.
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I personally do not recommend one purchasing, for example, an advanced fluid dynamics text, unless you were already familer with this text fom college.
For general references, I like the "standard" handbooks (I have "Marks"), I have the PE review manual by Lindeburg, and I have a few of what I call "lower lever reference guides" such as Engineering Mathematics by Tuma.
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and the CASTI Books if you are working with the ASME B&PV Code http://www
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Good luck with the books...and the chickens!
Brian
Brian
www.mcabeeconstruction.com
Opinions expressed are my own and are not those of the company.
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Flow of Fluids Crane Technical Paper 410
(I think these are hard to come by these days, but I got my local Crane dealer to get me one...for FREE...it still had whomever he borrowed it from's business card inside it! LOL)
Lots of great info in there.
Brian
www.mcabeeconstruction.com
Opinions expressed are my own and are not those of the company.
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The Crane Technical Paper 410 is available through Crane Valve here:
http://www.cranevalve.com/tech.htm
I am not affiliated with Crane in any way. Just knew it was available ($36) in both English and Metric versions.
-InspEngr
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Onc eyou have selected you discipline and area of work get some classic recognised books for the subjects.
Stress & Strain Roark & Young
Heat transfer Incropera & De Witt
Fluid Transient Streeter & Wylie or Thorley
The web has some great stuff
ie Stainless steel www.nidi.org
Pumps www.mcnallyinstitute.com
You will out grow your college books very fast as you specialise. So borrow them from alibrary or mates as you need them. Photocopy relevant sections and move on.
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The following books are my favorites and I got them all(most of them are already recommended above)
Fluid Mechanics by Streeter
HVAC by Shan K Wang
Refrigeration by Roy J Dossat
Heat Transfer by Holman; Incropera and Dewitt
Process Heat Transfer by DQ Kern
Thermodynamics by PK Nag (This excellent book is available only in India)
Crane TP410
Hick's Handbook
Perry's Handbook
Introduction to Physical Metallurgy by Sydney Avner
Pressure Vessel Handbook by Megyesy
Excell Programming in VBA by J Walkenbach
Engineering Mechanics by Timoshenko and Young (Singer is pretty tough)
Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering by McCabe and Smith
ASHRAE Handbooks
Compact Heat Exchangers by Kays and London
Books on my hitlist (1,2 and 5th books are very costly)
CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry
Pump Handbook by Karassik
Cameron Hydraulic Databook
Carrier's HVAC Handbook
Thermodynamics by Zemansky
Applied Process Design in Chemical and Petrochemical Plants by Earnst Ludwig
Pressure Vessel Handbook by Bednar
Regards,
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Do you by chance mean www.crcpress.com ??
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Machine Design by Norton,
The Science and Engineering of Materials by Askeland
Thermodynamics – An Engineering Approach by Çengel and Boles
are the basic reference books for a mechanical engineer.
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Handbook of Bolts and Bolted Joints by Bickford and Nassar, available from Dekker:
http://www.dekker.com
Regards,
Cory
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Whatever field you are in is likelly to have its own classics. Taylor and Heywood for engines, for example.
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The material I was really interested in, flow losses through fittings, etc., occupies only a few pages of information. Those factors, and the discussion of how they were determined, are of use, though. But even there, the information is fairly limited. There are flow factors for welded ells and "standard ells", IE, threaded fittings. But nothing for, say, PVC ells or copper tubing fittings or reducing tees or wyes, etc. I believe all the really useful material could be condensed to 10 pages or so.
If you like a cookbook approach, you'll probably appreciate their approach more than otherwise. You'll find the same basic equation rearranged in 20 different ways- saves you the trouble of doing it- but leads to clutter in the book.