Mechanical Engineering - General & Miscellaneous, Technology - Reference
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Overview
During the past 20 years, the field of mechanical engineering has undergone tremendous changes. As a result, there has been a growing need for a handbook that can serve the professional community by providing relevant background and up-to-date information. This truly modern handbook of mechanical engineering can serve the needs of the professional engineer into the next century."...reflects the tremendous changes occuring over the last 20 years...covers the development of computer technology, worldwide competition in industry, satellite communication, real time monitoring, robotics, and much more."
Editorials
A. M. Strauss
This handbook is large 2,600 pages has eight pages of color plates, and comes with a CD-ROM from Engineering information village. The organization largely follows the sequence courses a mechanical engineering undergraduate takes for an accredited degree. The primary sections are "Mechanics of Solids," "Thermodynamics," "Fluid Mechanics," "Heat and Mass Transfer," "Electrical Engineering Controls," "Energy Conversions," "Air Conditioning," "Design Manufacturing," "Robotics," and "Mathematics.".......Finally, there are only two references to gears in the index. Professionals.Booknews
In this reference for the engineer in industry, government, and academia, some 180 articles provide information on such key topics of mechanical engineering as energy conversion, bioengineering, robotics, and the traditional areas of thermodynamics. Appendices provide information on SI units, mathematical and computational methods, and physical properties of gasses, vapors, liquids, and solids. A CD-ROM provides the Internet-delivered subscription service, Engineering Information Village, for 60 days. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
March 24, 1998
Publisher
CRC Press
Pages
2624
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780849394188