| This portable, find-it-now reference contains thousands of indispensable formulas mechanical engineers need for day-to-day practice. It's all here in one compact resource—everything from HVAC to stress and vibration equations—measuring fatigue, bearings, gear design, simple mechanics, and more.
Compiled by a professional engineer with many years' experience, the Pocket Guide includes common conversions, symbols, and vital calculations data.
Preface
This handy book presents some 2000 needed formulas for mechanical engineers to help them in the design office, in the field and on a variety of consulting jobs, anywhere in the world. These formulas are also useful to design drafters, product engineers, job estimators, stress analysis engineers, machine designers, professional-engineer license candidates, civil service examination candidates and many other people in a variety of mechanical engineering pursuits.
The book presents formulas in 10 different specialties of mechanical engineering:
- Mechanics
- Strength of Materials
- Machine Components
- Shafts and Shafting
- Metal Working
- Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
- Thermodynamics
- Energy Engineering
- Fluids Engineering
- Conversion Factors for U.S. Customary System (USCS) Units and International System (Systeme International or SI) Units
Key formulas are presented for each of these topics. Each formula is explained so the engineer, drafter or designer knows how, where and when to use it in
professional work. Most of the formulas are given in both USCS and SI units. Hence, the book is usable throughout the world. To assist the mechanical
engineer using this material in world-wide engineering practice, a comprehensive tabulation of conversion factors is presented in Section 1.
In assembling this collection of formulas, the author was guided by experts who recommended the area of greatest need for a handy book of practical and
applied mechanical engineering formulas. Sources for the formulas presented here include the various regulatory and industry groups in the field of
mechanical engineering formulas.
Sources for the formulas presented here include the various regulatory and industry groups in the field of mechanical engineering, and a number of design
engineers in the field of product engineering. These sources are cited in the Acknowledgments section of this book.
When employing any of the formulas in this book that may come from an industry or regulatory code, the user is cautioned to consult the latest version of the code. Formulas may be changed from one edition to the next. In a work of this magnitude it is difficult to include the latest formulas from the
numerous constantly changing codes. Hence, the formulas given here are those current at the time of publication of this book.
In a work this large errors may occur. Hence, the author will be grateful to any reader who detects an error and calls it to the author's attention. Just
write the author in care of the publisher. The error will be corrected in the next printing.
In addition, if a user believes that one or more important formulas have been left out, the author will be happy to consider them for the inclusion in the
next edition of the book. Again, just write him in care of the publisher.
Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; Section 1: Conversion Factors for Mechanical Engineering Practice; Section 2: Mechanics--Statics and
Kinetics Formulas; Section 3: Formulas for Stresses in Machine Members; Section 4: Shaft and Shafting Formulas; Section 5: Machine Component and
Reliability Formulas; Section 6: Metalworking Formulas; Section 7: Formulas for Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning; Section 8: Thermodynamics
Formulas; Section 9: Energy Engineering Formulas; Section 10: Formulas for Fluids Engineering; Index |
