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Engineering Library recommendations

Engineering Library recommendations

Engineering Library recommendations

(OP)
Hi,

I'm in the process of updating the departments engineering library and wondering if anyone can recommend any books/handbooks for inclusion.  I'm looking for the sort golden nuggets that people 'couldn't live without'; engineering bibles as it were.

The company is a manufacturing plant and the sort of day to day engineering is stress analysis in steel pipes and small steel structures (pressure/bending/torsion etc), fluid flow calcs, torque and rotation, that sort of thing.

If anyone has any recommendations that they think would fit the bill please let me know.

Thanks
Dave

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

This has been answered several times.

Try doing a search on recommended books
or favorite books.

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

For in-house plant-style manufacturing for piping, strutures and such I'd have Marks, Machinerys Handbook, and ASTMs:
Section 1 - Iron and Steel Products
(Volume 01.01 through 01.06)

Section 2 - Nonferrous Metal Products (just in case)
(Volume 02.01 through 02.02)

Section 3 - Metals Test Methods and Analytical Procedures
(Volume 03.01 through 03.04)

Section 6 - Paints, Related Coatings, and Aromatics
(Volume 06.01 through 06.02)

If I were planning on lots of fluids calcs I'd add Analytical Fluid Dynamics.

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

This topic has come up several times before.  It seems we like to talk about books and software.  I know I'm guilty. glasses

Try starting here thread404-140578

Searching for "Roark" might find other threads too.

Regards,
-Mike

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

"Theory of Plates and Shells" by Timoshenko is one on my shelf.

Roark's is another.

There are two or three common pressure vessel handbooks- pick them up.

A good selection of old college textbooks finishes out the list.

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

What would be handier than an engineering library is just some budget money available for stuff When You Need It.  Example:  All those ASTM standards are available online for a few bucks.  You can go years and not use them- but it sure is handy to just pay the bucks and download one when you DO need it.

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

(OP)
Thanks a'body.  I've done a few searches on the site now (damn my impatient nature) and have come up with a few good recommendations.  There's a few which keep popping up (Roarks, Machinery's to name a couple) so I would assume these are the most popular and hence the most useful.

JStephen, I like your idea, I think I'll pursue that further.......

Thanks for all your help

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

The book that I refer to more than any other on my shelf is The Designers Manual by Ted Bilichniansky.  This  80 page, self-puplished booklet is "A no-nonsense guide to design stress calculations...one that makes learning easy by substituing practical examples for words".

The instructions on the copyright page state that the book can be purchased by sending $15.95 to P.O. Box 1073, Scottsdale, AZ 85252.  I bought mine about 15 years ago, so I don't know if this is still valid.  Does anyone out there have more recent purchasing experience/information for this booklet?

Andy  

RE: Engineering Library recommendations

The best references I've ever seen are those from MIT, although NASA is pretty damn good.

Doesn't explain why the Bruins continually ice a bad team, Florida has one equally useless, although their other is a championship club.

Kenneth J Hueston, PEng
Principal
Sturni-Hueston Engineering Inc
Edmonton, Alberta Canada

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