Mechanical Engineering: Engineering Handbooks

This easytouse guide gives you the building components required to develop accurate assemblies-level cost estimates, evaluate trade off costs, and verify unit price estimates.

This easy-to-use guide gives the building components required to develop accurate assemblies-level cost estimates, evaluate trade-off costs and verify unit price estimates.

This guide provides up-to-date materials, equipment and labor costs needed to estimate mechanical construction project costs and to compare different types of components or systems. It includes unit price information on construction equipment rental costs, historical cost indexes to compare prices over time and city cost indexes to estimate prices in over 700 different cities throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Includes cost data and approximate frequency for maintenance and repair, preventive maintenance, and daily maintenance, as well as an introduction and guide to completing equipment audits.

A comprehensive collection of costs designed for everything from detailing large scopes of work to conceptually estimating smaller ones.

Each chapter in this online handbook has a strong theoretical and scientific base, but is heavily focused on real world applications, including case studies, examples, and figures. It includes new chapters on: Managing low-back disorder risk in the workplace, HF&E in motor vehicle transportation, User requirements, and more.

This handbook includes concise, clear, up-to-date and precise definitions of over 4,000 terms associated with mechanical engineering.

Dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting international trade in the free market environment. This handbook provides a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

The 2012 ASHRAE Handbook--HVAC Systems and Equipment discusses various systems and the equipment (components or assemblies) they comprise, and describes features and differences. This information helps system designers and operators in selecting and using equipment.

This handbook includes over 60 chapters covering a broad range of facilities and topics, and is written to help engineers design and use equipment and systems described in other Handbook volumes. Each chapter includes current requirements, technology, and design practice.

The 2022 ASHRAE Handbook--Refrigeration covers the refrigeration equipment and systems for applications other than human comfort.

With up-to-date research sponsored by ASHRAE and others, this handbook includes general engineering information, basic materials, climate data, load and energy calculations, duct and pipe design, and sustainability, plus reference tables for abbreviations and symbols, I-P to SI conversions, and physical properties of materials.

Machinery's Handbook is the essential reference for Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineers, Designers, Draftsmen, Toolmakers, Machinists, and Engineering and Technology Students. New to the 30th Edition: Expanded metrology section, new fluid power section , new powder metallurgy section, including additive manufacturing, updated standards. and expanded metric content.

The most comprehensive, authoritative and widely cited reference on photovoltaic solar energy. Each chapter is structured to be partially accessible to beginners while providing detailed information of the physics and technology for experts. Encompassing a review of past work and the fundamentals in solar electric science, this is a leading reference and invaluable resource for all practitioners, consultants, researchers and students in the PV industry.

This book serves as a reference for engineers, scientists, and students concerned with the use of materials in applications where reliability and resistance to corrosion are important. It updates the coverage of its predecessor, including coverage of: corrosion rates of steel in major river systems and atmospheric corrosion rates, the corrosion behavior of materials such as weathering steels and newer stainless alloys, and the corrosion behavior and engineering approaches to corrosion control for nonmetallic materials. New chapters include: high-temperature oxidation of metals and alloys, nanomaterials, and dental materials, anodic protection. Also featured are chapters dealing with standards for corrosion testing, microbiological corrosion, and electrochemical noise.

The Control Handbook is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. It includes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts covering everything from basic closed-loop systems to multi-agent adaptive systems and from the control of electric motors to the control of complex networks. Engineers, students, or researchers working in fields as diverse as electronics, aeronautics, or biomedicine will find this handbook to be a time-saving resource filled with invaluable formulas, models, methods, and innovative thinking.

The Automotive Handbook contains just about anything relevant to automobile design, development and quality engineering. This edition includes concise technical data and insights, increased emphasis on electrical systems, a new chapter on driver assistance systems, over 1,000 diagrams, illustrations, sectional drawings and tables, handy conversion charts and an easy-to-use topic index and contributions from experts in automotive manufacturers, universities and Bosch itself.

This handbook studies the combination of various methods of designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, as well as the latest techniques in modelling, in a logically structured approach to determining the integrity of engineering design.

This online handbook is a well-respected guide to applied energy engineering and management. Its easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach starts with the basics and progresses to the state-of-the-art. It presents methods for energy analysis for any system, including specific problems with worked-out solutions; guidelines for using new financing mechanisms, such as performance contracting; and coverage of organizational, management and cost considerations.

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 answer any analytical, design, and application question.