A few of my favorite things...
A few of my favorite things...
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Please name the top 5 reference manuals that no mechanical engineer should be without. I'm looking to expand my library, past my college textbooks, and I hate to spend $300 on a book, that I will never use. If you could, please describe what you like about each selection.
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and "Machinery's Handbook" get my top two votes
Timelord
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1. Mechanisms & Mechanical Devices, by Neil Sclater & Nicholas Chironis
2. Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, by Robert H. Perry
3. Modern Drafting Practices and Standards Manual, by General Electric Co. (or)
Drawing Requirements Manual, by Jerome H. Lieblich, Gary Whitmire
Wes C.
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I was orignally hired on as a CAD jockey just out of college (I graduated with a BSME). The design here has always been based on a guess and check/it worked before philosophy with very little emphasis on calculations or theory. I have worked here for 18 months now, and I have taken on the brunt of the design work, since I am the only one with a technical background. I have learned a great deal, and have had a lot of success, with minimal guidance. Not having years of experience in the field, however, limits my ability to say "this has worked before" so I put a great deal of value on information that can be gathered from books. Right now my main sources of reference are my college text books and internet research. With the design philosophy that I described earlier, it is hard for me to justify spending $2000 on books. I am looking to aquire the bare bones of references, and then I can grow from there as needed. I need books focused on power transmission, structural design and weld design. I need something with a technical viewpoint with equations, charts and examples and less emphasis on theory.
Any help from the brilliant and experienced group here at Engineering Tips would be greatly appreciated.
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Tony R
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1) As stated above, Marks and Machinery's
2) Roark's Formulas of Stress and Strain
3) Gaylord's Structural Engineering Handbook
4) AISC 9th edition of the Steel Construction Manaul (ASD)
5) Omer Blodgett's books: Design of Weldments and Design of Welded Structures
6) Check through ASCE pubs for ones germane to your work
7) Something on Machine Design -- I have Shigley's text and his handbook. The latter has some good info but is poorly put together and not nearly what it could be.
8) Structural Engineering: Salmon and Johnson
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One good, but textbook-like, book I've used is
Machine Design Fundamentals -A Practical Approach
Hindhede et al, Wiley, ISBN0-471-04136-X.
For your stated field of work it's pretty directly applicable, probably good bang for your buck. As far as don't be without goes, see Timelords top 2, (including MH's Guide)
Best of luck to you!
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Please let us all know how this works out for you!
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"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein
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ASM MEtals handbook part 11: failure analysis.
When you got the shakes:
Den Hartog - Vibration problems in engineering.
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As recommended by BEGGAR
Roark's Stress and Strain Handbook
Gaylord and Gaylord Structural Engineer's Handbook
Omar Blodgett's Welding references
AISC 9th Edition of Steel Construction Specifications
I also recommend the following:
Get the new 13th Edition of AISC's Steel Construction Specs,
Structural Analysis by Hibbeler - indispensible and intuitive.
Structural Steel Design by Gaylord and Gaylord
and if you don't already have a good vibration text, I recommend Vibration Problems in Engineering by Timoshenko et al.
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Time can approve everthing.
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2. Pocket Ref
by Thomas J. Glover
from Engineering Publications Group
3. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
4. Materials Handbook (there are at least a couple of these)
5. Ingenious mechanisms
6. A quality control handbook including applied statistics
7. A basic math book for what you only vaguely remember
8. Materials Science and Engineering by Carter Paul
9. Mechanisms and Material Devices Sourcebook by Nicholas P. Chirons
10. For fun and occasionally surprisingly useful
11. Henley's Formulas for Home and Workshop
12. Out of the Fiery Furnace
13. Get a catalog Lindsay’s Technical Books
PO box 538 Bradley, IL 60915
815 935 5353 www.lindsaybks.com
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www.carbideprocessor.com
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rmw
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For the price (free*), you can't beat a set of OMEGA® HANDBOOKS for Flow, Temperature, Pressure, Liquid Level, Strain, etc.
http://www.omega.com/literature/domestic.html
*overseas: have to pay shipping for hard copy (some free pdf downloads are available).
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Quality control handbook - Juran
DeGarmo was updated recently I think. Mine are 4th and 9th editions.
Not sure what the current revision of Juran is, but it should mainly serve to give a good grounding in the fundamentals and then become a reference.