Looking for Book on Forces
Looking for Book on Forces
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I am a fairly new tool designer who is looking for a good book on calculating forces. I design nice fixtures using the 3-2-1 method but I always wonder about the clamp I chose or how is that hardened A2 pin going to hold up. Basically I am looking for something with cutting forces, shear strength of materials including tools steels, & clamping forces to offset cutting forces. I've gone back to my text books but they just are not giving me what I want-real world & understandable. I do own the machinerys handbook (and use it quite often) but It is to convoluted and I have a hard time relating my situations in an understandable way? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.





RE: Looking for Book on Forces
Any decent undergraduate text on Statics should be a good start.
Here is a link to a listing from Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=book...
I used an earlier version of this text:
Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics
by Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell, Jr Johnston, Elliot R. Eisenberg, George H. Staab, Ferdinand Beer, Jr., E. Russell Johnston, Elliot Eisenberg, George Staab
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 7th edition (June 4, 2003)
ISBN: 0072930780
Good luck.
Best regards,
Matthew Ian Loew
"Luck is the residue of design."
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RE: Looking for Book on Forces
After a while drawing free body diagrams of tooling, you will likely find that most things you build are statically indeterminate (too many locations resisting a given force to give you a unique solution). Then you must get into mechanics of materials, and consider deflections. I would suggest Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers as a good desk reference, to be used like you use Machinery's handbook, but it is also just as large and difficult to read. There are more "user-friendly" books out there, like Mott, Applied Strength of Materials, and Shigley, Mechanical Engineering Design. These two just happen to be on my desk at the moment, there are a plethora of others. Shigley, at least, has "stood the test of time", since it was published in 1963, but I find it very comprehensive.
STF
RE: Looking for Book on Forces
RE: Looking for Book on Forces
It's been a few years, but Kenametal and Valenite had some pretty informative "Engineering Sections" to their catalogs (or maybe that was a separate catalog?). I'm sure you could call them and get one for free in a couple days as long as you tell them you're looking to buy :)
Ken
RE: Looking for Book on Forces
Other references can be found at http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/eod/
Two other refrences are:
Shingley's "Mechanical Design"
"Roarks's Formulas for Stress and Strain"
RE: Looking for Book on Forces
RE: Looking for Book on Forces