Mechanical Engineering: New Books 2018-19

The reader will find a wide range of topics that are both practical in nature and ones that delve more deeply into the science and engineering basis behind pumping and compression processes.

Discusses how new dissimilar metal and composite materials are changing the manufacturing and production processes for the transportation industry

Explors the many complex questions surrounding the communication of scientific results to nonscientists.

An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car--an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone.

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.

Includes data and guidance on cooling, freezing, and storing food; industrial and medical applications of refrigeration; and low-temperature refrigeration.

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

Heavy Construction Costs with RSMeans data offers costs for all types of heavy construction from highways, bridges, and utilities.

The book looks at how to design, engineer and monitor energy efficient buildings, how to adapt buildings to climate change, and how to make buildings healthy, comfortable and secure.

Presents the basic operation principles and thermal performance of four innovative building envelope systems.

An illustrative guide to the analysis needed to achieve a safe design in ASME Pressure Vessels, Boilers, and Nuclear Components

Introduces new ideas in the design of wind turbine airfoils and blades based on functional integral theory and the finite element method, accompanied by results from wind tunnel testing.

Addresses methods to improve product quality, reliability, and durability during the product life cycle, along with methods to avoid costs that can negatively impact profitability plans.

Explains the critically important elements of the Toyota Production System, aalyzes the sequence of implementation as the system developed, and places these elements in a logical order of implementation based on the history and current knowledge.

Written both to support career success and to encourage leadership self-awareness, this is a book you'll turn to again and again for advice, for information, and most of all for inspiration.

Goes beyond a list of rules to help students and practitioners gain a better understanding of the creation, import, and use of standards.

Pprovides insights on engineering education, practice, and careers that can inform educational institutions, funding agencies, and policy makers about the challenges facing the United States in developing its engineering workforce in the global economy.

provides design engineers with proven methods to analyze their own work while it is still in the form of easily modifiable CAD models.