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Mechanical Technology
About this book
Mechanical Technology, Second Edition provides discussion of the fundamental outline of mechanical engineering principles. The book is comprised of 41 chapters that cover the major areas of mechanical technology, such as stress analysis, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. The coverage of the text includes the thermodynamic properties of substances; gyroscopic motion; and momentum of fluids. The book also covers the influence of computers in the various aspects of mechanical engineering, such as in designing and manufacturing. The text will be useful to students of mechanical engineering. Readers who want to have a better understanding of fundamental mechanical engineering will also benefit from the book.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Mechanical Technology
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Simple stress and strain
- Chapter 2. Shearing force and bending moment
- Chapter 3. Bending and shearing stresses
- Chapter 4. Torsion
- Chapter 5. Deflection of beams
- Chapter 6. Struts
- Chapter 7. Strain energy
- Chapter 8. Complex stress and strain
- Chapter 9. Cylinders
- Chapter 10. Dynamics
- Chapter 11. Velocity and acceleration diagrams
- Chapter 12. Reciprocating mechanisms
- Chapter 13. Turning moment diagrams
- Chapter 14. Balancing of rotating masses
- Chapter 15. Friction clutches, bearings and belt drives
- Chapter 16. Gyroscopic motion
- Chapter 17. Gear trains
- Chapter 18. Free vibrations
- Chapter 19. Transverse vibrations and whirling speeds
- Chapter 20. Damped and forced vibrations
- Chapter 21. Thermodynamic properties of substances
- Chapter 22. Basic engineering thermodynamics
- Chapter 23. The second law of thermodynamics
- Chapter 24. Steam plant
- Chapter 25. Gas turbine plant
- Chapter 26. Reciprocating internal combustion engines
- Chapter 27. Refrigerators and heat pumps
- Chapter 28. Reciprocating air compressors
- Chapter 29. Combustion
- Chapter 30. Plant performance
- Chapter 31. Heat transfer
- Chapter 32. Pressure and pressure measurement
- Chapter 33. Hydrostatics
- Chapter 34. Flow and flow measurement
- Chapter 35. Momentum of fluids
- Chapter 36. Viscosity
- Chapter 37. Real fluid flow
- Chapter 38. Dimensional analysis
- Chapter 39. Dynamic similarity
- Chapter 40. Turbomachinery
- Chapter 41. Centrifugal pumps
- Chapter 42. Computers in mechanical engineering
- Appendix A: Moments of area and Inertia
- Appendix B Differential equations
- Index