Other Titles: Mechanical engineers' handbook. Standard handbook for mechanical engineers Mechanical engineers' handbook

Contributors -- Editors -- Preface to the Eleventh edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Symbols and abbreviations -- Mathematical Tables And Measuring Units: -- Mathematical tables -- Measuring units -- Mathematics: -- Mathematics -- Computers -- Mechanics Of Solids And Fluids: -- Mechanics of solids -- Friction -- Mechanics of fluids -- Vibration -- Heat: -- Thermodynamics -- Thermodynamic properties of substances -- Radiant heat transfer -- Transmission of heat by conduction and convection -- Strength Of Materials: -- Mechanical properties of materials -- Mechanics of materials -- Pipeline flexure stresses -- Nondestructive testing -- Experimental stress and strain analysis -- Mechanics of composite materials -- Materials Of Engineering: -- General properties of materials -- Iron and steel -- Iron and steel castings -- Nonferrous metals and alloys; metallic specialties -- Corrosion -- Paints and protective coatings -- Wood -- nonmetallic materials -- Cement, mortar, and concrete -- Water -- Lubricants and lubrication -- Plastics -- Fiber composite materials -- Fuels And Furnaces: -- Fuels -- Carbonization of coal and gas making -- Combustion furnaces -- Municipal waste combustion -- Electric furnaces and ovens -- Machine Elements: -- Mechanism -- Machine elements -- Gearing -- Fluid-film bearings -- Bearings with rolling contact -- Packings, gaskets, and seals -- Pipe, pipe fittings, and valves -- Power Generation: -- Sources of energy -- Steam boilers -- Steam engines -- Steam turbines -- Power-plant heat exchangers -- Internal-combustion engines -- Gas turbines -- Nuclear power -- Hydraulic turbines -- Materials Handling: -- Materials holding, feeding, and metering -- Lifting, hoisting, and elevating -- Dragging, pulling, and pushing -- Loading, carrying, and excavating -- Conveyor moving and handling -- Automatic guided vehicles and robots -- Material storage and warehousing -- Transportation: -- Automotive engineering -- Railway engineering -- Marine engineering -- Aeronautics -- Jet propulsion and aircraft propellers -- Astronautics -- Pipeline transmission -- Containerization -- Building Construction And Equipment: -- Industrial plants -- Structural design of buildings -- Reinforced concrete design and construction -- Air conditioning, heating, and ventilating -- Illumination -- Sound, noise, and ultrasonics -- Manufacturing Processes: -- Foundry practice and equipment -- Plastic working of metals -- Welding and cutting -- Machining processes and machine tools -- Surface texture designation, production, and quality control -- Woodcutting tools and machines -- Precision cleaning -- Fans, Pumps, Compressors: -- Displacement pumps -- Centrifugal pumps -- Compressors -- High-vacuum pumps -- Fans -- Electrical And Electronics Engineering: -- Electrical engineering -- Electronics -- Instruments And Controls: -- Instruments -- Automatic controls -- Surveying -- Industrial Engineering: -- Operations management -- Cost accounting -- Engineering statistics and quality control -- Methods engineering -- Cost of electric power -- Human factors and ergonomics -- Automatic manufacturing -- Regulatory Environment: -- Environmental control -- Occupational safety and health -- Fire protection -- Patents, trademarks, and copyrights -- Refrigeration, Cryogenics, And Optics: -- Mechanical refrigeration -- Cryogenics -- Optics -- Emerging Technologies: -- Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) -- Introduction to nanotechnology -- Ferroelectrics/piezoelectrics and shape memory alloys -- Introduction to the finite-element method -- Computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, and Variational design -- Introduction to computational fluid dynamics -- Experimental fluid dynamics -- Introduction to biomechanics -- Human injury tolerance and anthropometric test devices -- Air-inflated fabric structures -- Robotics, mechatronics, and intelligent automation -- Rapid prototyping -- Miscellany.

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