Mechanical Engineering Books

New and Published Books

1. Energy Systems

   A New Approach to Engineering Thermodynamics

   By Renaud Gicquel

   Considered as particularly difficult by generations of students and engineers, thermodynamics applied to energy systems can now be taught with an original instruction method. Energy Systems applies a completely different approach to the calculation, application and theory of multiple energy...

   Published January 26th 2012 by CRC Press
2. High-Speed Precision Motion Control

   Edited by Takashi Yamaguchi, Mitsuo Hirata, Justin Chee Khiang Pang

   Written for researchers and postgraduate students in Control Engineering, as well as professionals in the Hard Disk Drive industry, this book discusses high-precision and fast servo controls in Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). The editors present a number of control algorithms that enable fast seeking and...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
3. Engineering Design with Polymers and Composites, Second Edition

   By James C. Gerdeen, PhD, PE, Ronald A.L. Rorrer, PhD, PE

   Engineering Design with Polymers and Composites, Second Edition continues to provide one of the only textbooks on the analysis and design of mechanical components made from polymer materials. It explains how to create polymer materials to meet design specifications. After tracing the history of...

   Published December 18th 2011 by CRC Press
4. Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Second Edition

   By Andrei D. Polyanin, Valentin F. Zaitsev

   New to the Second Edition More than 1,000 pages with over 1,500 new first-, second-, third-, fourth-, and higher-order nonlinear equations with solutions Parabolic, hyperbolic, elliptic, and other systems of equations with solutions Some exact methods and transformations Symbolic and numerical...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Chapman & Hall
5. Structural Crashworthiness and Failure

   Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Structural Crashworthiness held at the University of Liverpool, England, 14-16 April 1993

   Edited by N. Jones, T. Wierzbicki

   This book contains twelve invited lectures from the Third International Symposium on Structural Crashworthiness. Particular emphasis is given to the failure predictions for ductile metal structures under large dynamic loads and to the behaviour of composite and cellular structures....

   Published December 12th 2011 by CRC Press
6. Hospital Airborne Infection Control

   By Wladyslaw Kowalski

   Although nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infections have been well cataloged and are fairly well understood, traditional solutions have failed to completely eliminate the problem. Even the most modern hospitals find themselves stymied by the persistence of these pathogens in hospital wards and...

   Published December 6th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Free-Standing Tension Structures

   From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

   By Binbing Wang

   Series: Spon Research

   Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for...

   Published November 28th 2011 by CRC Press
8. Sliding Mode Control for Synchronous Electric Drives

   By Sergey E. Ryvkin, Eduardo Palomar Lever

   This volume presents the theory and application of sliding mode control insynchronous drives. It demonstrates the methodology of control design and theoriginal algorithms of control and observation. Practically all semiconductordevices are used in power converters, that feed electrical motors, as...

   Published November 20th 2011 by CRC Press
9. Size-Scale Effects in the Failure Mechanisms of Materials and Structures

   Edited by Alberto Carpinteri

   Published November 17th 2011 by CRC Press
10. Pressure Vessel Design

    Concepts and principles

    Edited by J Spence, A S Tooth

    This book derives from a 3 day intensive course on Pressure Vessel Design given regularly in the UK and around the world since 1986. It is written by experts in their field and although the main thrust of the Course has been directed to BS5500, the treatment of the material is of a general nature...

    Published November 17th 2011 by CRC Press