Product Description

The definitive machine design handbook for mechanical engineers, product designers, project engineers, design engineers, and manufacturing engineers covers every aspect of machine construction and operation. The 3rd edition of the Standard Handbook of Machine Design will be redesigned to meet the challenges of a new mechanical engineering age. In addition to adding chapters on structural plastics and adhesives, which are replacing the old nuts bolts and fasteners in design, the author will also update and streamline the remaining chapters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214343 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1200 pages

From the Back Cover
CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS

Known as the professionals' bible, Standard Handbook of Machine Design puts the formulas, solutions, and reference material engineers need at their fingertips. Definitive and comprehensive, this superlative reference provides:

* Two new chapters on the evolution of a successful machine design and pressure cylinders
* Classic computational methods
* Current codes and standards
* Comprehensive design solutions for topics such as Cams, Gears, Springs, Clutches, Brakes, and Bolted and Welded connections
* A thesaurus of mechanisms
* Tables, standards, and code data
* Reorganization for quick look-up of information

THE LATEST IDEAS IN MACHINE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
• Standards, Codes, Regulations • Computational Considerations • Wear • Solid Materials • Strength of Cold-Worked & Heat-Treated Steels • Strength Under Static Circumstances • Welded Connection • Instabilities in Beams and Columns • Curved Beams and Rings • Seals • Flywheels Fits & Tolerances• Power Screws • Threaded Fasteners • Unthreaded Fasteners • Bolted & Riveted Joints • Springs • Lubrication • Gaskets • Rolling-Contact Bearings • Journal Bearings • Couplings • Structural Plastics & Adhesives • Clutches & Brakes • Belt Drives • Chain Drives • Spur Gears • Bevel and Hypoid Gears • Helical Gears • Worm Gearing • Shafts • Vibration & Control of Vibration • A Thesaurus of Mechanisms • Cam Mechanisms • Linkages • Load-Cycle Analysis • Corrosion • Gear Trains • Sections & Shapes • Tabular Data • Stress • Deflection •

About the Author
Joseph E. Shigley (deceased) was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, received the Worcester Reed Warner medal in 1977 and their Machine Design Award in 1985. He was the author of eight books, including Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (with John J. Uicker, Jr.), and Applied Mechanics of Materials and Coeditor-in-Chief of the Standard Handbook of Machine Design.

Charles R. Mischke, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. He has authored many technical papers on designing to a reliability specification, computer-aided design, and design morphology. His was Coeditor-in-Chief, with J.E. Shigley, of the Standard Handbook of Machine Design, First and Second Editions.

Thomas Hunter Brown, Jr., Ph.D., PE, is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He currently manages both the FE review program and the Civil Engineering PE Review Program at the University's Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), in addition to fulfilling his course development and teaching responsibilities. Brown also teaches review courses for the Mechanical Engineering PE Review Program offered by the University and a private professional development firm. Prior to coming to NC State, Dr. Brown worked as a mechanical engineer for Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Fluor Daniel Construction, and Burlington Industries, where he specialized in stress analysis and machine design.

Customer Reviews

thorough and outdated
I own both Shigley's books on Machine Design, Mechanical Engineering Design (which I would rate 5/5) and this handbook. I find this handbook is very extensive in the topics it covers, just about everything pertaining to Machine Design, but fails to elaborate in many of the key areas. Furthermore, many formulas are presented, but there are not enough examples on their use. My greatest complaint though, has to do with the print, it seems as if I had in my hand a book written out in the 60s. Drawing are dirty and unclear in many situations, tables seem as if they were cutout from another book and pasted here, then photocopied (the first drawing in the book, a man, seems as if it was photocopied on a lousy photocopier from an old newspaper), and the typeface in the graphs is plainly outdated. I understand late J. Shigley is no longer among us, but Mischke should modernize the quality of presentation when deciding to launch new editions. Overall, I recommend Rothbart's handbook over this one.

Excellent Reference for a Machine Designer
This text is an excellent reference for any design engineer working in the machinery field. It fills in where the Machinery's Handbook falls short. The text is basically (I am oversimplifying) an expanded version of the Shigley McGraw-Hill Machine Design Textbook. My only complaint is that the discussion on the strength of welded joints is missing.