Marks' Standard Handbook For Mechanical Engineers

by Avallone, Eugene; Baumeister, Theodore; Sadegh, Ali

• ISBN13: 9780071428675
• ISBN10: 0071428674
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Solve any mechanical engineering problem quickly and easily with the world's leading engineering handbook Nearly 1800 pages of mechanical engineering facts, figures, standards, and practices, 2000 illustrations, and 900 tables clarifying important mathematical and engineering principle, and the collective wisdom of 160 experts help you answer any analytical, design, and application question you will ever have.

Author Biography

Eugene A. Avallone is a consulting engineer with over 50 years of active practice in industry and academia.

Theodore Baumeister III was affiliated with E.I DuPont de Nemours & Company for many years in engineering & development. Since retirement he has been a computer programmer and consultant in Mechanical engineering.

Ali Sadegh is Director of the Center for AEDD, at City University of New York and a Mechanical Engineer.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
The Editors	xiii
Preface to the Eleventh Edition	xv
Preface to the First Edition	xvii
Symbols and Abbreviations	xix
Mathematical Tables and Measuring Units	1	(1)
Mathematical Tables	1	(15)
Measuring Units	16
Mathematics	1	(1)
Mathematics	2	(38)
Computers	40
Mechanics of Solids and Fluids	1	(1)
Mechanics of Solids	2	(18)
Friction	20	(9)
Mechanics of Fluids	29	(32)
Vibration	61
Heat	1	(1)
Thermodynamics	2	(30)
Thermodynamic Properties of Substances	32	(31)
Radiant Heat Transfer	63	(16)
Transmission of Heat by Conduction and Convection	79
Strength of Materials	1	(1)
Mechanical Properties of Materials	2	(12)
Mechanics of Materials	14	(37)
Pipeline Flexure Stresses	51	(6)
Nondestructive Testing	57	(6)
Experimental Stress and Strain Analysis	63	(8)
Mechanics of Composite Materials	71
Materials of Engineering	1	(1)
General Properties of Materials	3	(9)
Iron and Steel	12	(22)
Iron and Steel Castings	34	(12)
Nonferrous Metals and Alloys; Metallic Specialties	46	(46)
Corrosion	92	(19)
Paints and Protective Coatings	111	(4)
Wood	115	(16)
Nonmetallic Materials	131	(31)
Cement, Mortar, and Concrete	162	(9)
Water	171	(9)
Lubricants and Lubrication	180	(9)
Plastics	189	(17)
Fiber Composite Materials	206
Fuels and Furnaces	1	(1)
Fuels	2	(28)
Carbonization of Coal and Gas Making	30	(13)
Combustion Furnaces	43	(5)
Municipal Waste Combustion	48	(6)
Electric Furnaces and Ovens	54
Machine Elements	1	(1)
Mechanism	3	(7)
Machine Elements	10	(73)
Gearing	83	(28)
Fluid-Film Bearings	111	(16)
Bearings with Rolling Contact	127	(6)
Packings, Gaskets, and Seals	133	(5)
Pipe, Pipe Fittings, and Valves	138
Power Generation	1	(1)
Sources of Energy	3	(26)
Steam Boilers	29	(27)
Steam Engines	56	(2)
Steam Turbines	58	(20)
Power-Plant Heat Exchangers	78	(15)
Internal-Combustion Engines	93	(34)
Gas Turbines	127	(11)
Nuclear Power	138	(16)
Hydraulic Turbines	154
Materials Handling	1	(1)
Materials Holding, Feeding, and Metering	2	(2)
Lifting, Hoisting, and Elevating	4	(18)
Dragging, Pulling, and Pushing	22	(4)
Loading, Carrying, and Excavating	26	(16)
Conveyor Moving and Handling	42	(21)
Automatic Guided Vehicles and Robots	63	(6)
Material Storage and Warehousing	69
Transportation	1	(1)
Automotive Engineering	3	(15)
Railway Engineering	18	(22)
Marine Engineering	40	(18)
Aeronautics	58	(25)
Jet Propulsion and Aircraft Propellers	83	(21)
Astronautics	104	(35)
Pipeline Transmission	139	(10)
Containerization	149
Building Construction and Equipment	1	(1)
Industrial Plants	2	(17)
Structural Design of Buildings	19	(18)
Reinforced Concrete Design and Construction	37	(12)
Air Conditioning, Heating, and Ventilating	49	(39)
Illumination	88	(8)
Sound, Noise, and Ultrasonics	96
Manufacturing Processes	1	(1)
Foundry Practice and Equipment	3	(6)
Plastic Working of Metals	9	(20)
Welding and Cutting	29	(21)
Machining Processes and Machine Tools	50	(22)
Surface Texture Designation, Production, and Quality Control	72	(5)
Woodcutting Tools and Machines	77	(3)
Precision Cleaning	80
Fans, Pumps, and Compressors	1	(1)
Displacement Pumps	2	(13)
Centrifugal Pumps	15	(11)
Compressors	26	(13)
High-Vacuum Pumps	39	(7)
Fans	46
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	1	(1)
Electrical Engineering	2	(66)
Electronics	68
Instruments and Controls	1	(1)
Instruments	2	(19)
Automatic Controls	21	(31)
Surveying	52
Industrial Engineering	1	(1)
Operations Management	3	(8)
Cost Accounting	11	(7)
Engineering Statistics and Quality Control	18	(7)
Methods Engineering	25	(6)
Cost of Electric Power	31	(8)
Human Factors and Ergonomics	39	(4)
Automatic Manufacturing	43
The Regulatory Environment	1	(1)
Environmental Control	2	(16)
Occupational Safety and Health	18	(4)
Fire Protection	22	(5)
Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights	27
Refrigeration, Cryogenics, and Optics	1	(1)
Mechanical Refrigeration	2	(24)
Cryogenics	26	(15)
Optics	41
Emerging Technologies	1
An Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)	3	(13)
Introduction to Nanotechnology	13	(7)
Ferroelectrics/Piezoelectrics and Shape Memory Alloys	20	(8)
Introduction to the Finite-Element Method	28	(16)
Computer-Aided Design, Computer-Aided Engineering, and Variational Design	44	(7)
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics	51	(12)
Experimental Fluid Dynamics	63	(16)
Introduction to Biomechanics	79	(25)
Human Injury Tolerance and Anthropometric Test Devices	104	(4)
Air-Inflated Fabric Structures	108	(10)
Robotics, Mechatronics, and Intelligent Automation	118	(14)
Rapid Prototyping	132	(3)
Miscellany	135