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Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity 4th Edition
Many Engineering text books lately do not seem to be written well.I feel that this is not the fault of the authors as much as it is the fault of the editor.This book overall is not in my worst text book list, but can be improved very easily.I have given it a 2 star rating, meaning that it still can be improved upon and until it is improved it is a difficult book to follow. Good but not perfect
First few chapters are well treated but advanced topics are not covered in detail.For example, beams on elastic foundation chapter is not covered extensively.To conclude,anyone interested in advanced mechanics of materials should own it.

Not Practical
As an Aerospace Engineer (structures), I found this to be the one book that remains on my shelf. It has valid and accurate ACEDEMIC explanations of structural systems - but it does not lend itself to practical implementation of those methods...and many other books do! If this book is supplementing a curriculum, it will serve its purpose well. However, if you actually plan to use what you've learned - not here.
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Subjects:  1. Elasticity    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Engineering Mechanics    4. Material Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Strength Of Materials    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Mechanics of solids    10. Science / Statics   

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Great reference work for the professional maintenance engineer
This book contains over 1500 pages of figures and often dense text. It is the only book of its kind that I know of written clearly for the degreed maintenance and facilities engineer. This book is an edited work by several dozen authors who are all leading maintenance practitioners and experts in their field. The book covers both management and technical issues associated with the maintenance of the modern physical plant.
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Subjects:  1. Engineering - Industrial    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Manufacturing    5. Plant Maintenance    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Engineering: general    10. Industry & Industrial Studies    11. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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Good solid book
I'm not a mechanical engineer and I have been able to follow the book well. It goes really in depth in some places, so you have to know when to skip a few pages. But it is fine for a final year undergrad course, and I'm sure it would work for a grad course as well, but if you don't have a good math and science background (ie engineering), then just research www.howstuffworks.com and then subscribe to a few car magazines. There is a lot of practical info in here as well, but don't kid yourself, most of this is theoretical backround. I am an electrical engineer who wanted to get into hybrid vehicles, and I think if you are like me and want to just buy one book on ICEs, this is it.

A really scientific approach to the engine practice
This book is my Bible. It does not explain you how to add 2HP to the engine, it explains how all that works and why, with theory, numbers and serious real world tests. the Bible for engine related study and research
almost all the areas concerning internal combustion engines are covered in proper detail. it is useful for related undergrad and grad studies, also an indispensable reference for grad research work in engine technologies. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automotive - General    2. Engineering - Automotive    3. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    4. Engineering - Mechanical    5. Internal Combustion Engines    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Engines & power transmission    10. Transportation / Automotive / General   

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A Fluid Book
Professor Frank M. White is one of the few double professors who is also an effective author and proficient teacher. As an undergrad I took an introductory fluids course taught by the author at the University of Rhode Island, and I found him to be an extraordinary teacher who could explain complex topics in a straightforward, unassuming manner. The same style of teaching is carried over to his written works, this book in particular.
Good seller
I bought a textbook from this seller. It came rather quickly and in great condition.

Cumbersome to Use
I used this book for my second course in fluid mechanics, and I thought it was terrible. THe chapters are not organized very well, the example problems aren't presented effectively, and this problems at the ned of the chapter are not well written, as well as this book contains many errors. I don't reccommend this text to other students; I would use Munson&Okishi 's text for undergrads. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Mechanics - General    3. Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Fluid mechanics    7. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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Book content value
This volume contains the most comprehensive list of mechanicalcomponents and variations on any given theme that I've seen in one place.Additionally there are significant extensions to computation methods and overviews not found elsewhere.It is an extremely high value book.

Absolute Must
The last few favourable reviews cover my thoughts well, but I would like to add that this large volume far exceeded my expectations in terms of both depth of content and quality. This is an amazing value for anyone who works with mechanical components. While its focus is on illustrations of the components themselves, it also includes detailed explanations with graphs, formulae, etc. So it's also a how-to book of sorts. I also purchased a companion volume "Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook", which I also highly recommend.

A terrific book
Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components has lots and lots and lots of line drawings of machinery components.The drawings are clear and simple.Each is accompanied by a well written description, usually a few lines but longer if needed.An interesting book for anyone mechanically inclined.For engineers there are tables and formulas where needed.A great book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Machine Engineering (Specific Aspects)    4. Machine parts    5. Machinery    6. Mechanical Engineering (General)    7. Reference    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Mechanical engineering    11. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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A Must-Have in Chemical Engineering
If you are a chemical engineer and do not own this text, you will have a hard time. This text covers all physical properties of organic, and some inorganic, gases and liquids. It offers complete theoretical development and practical equations which are amenable to spreadsheets and numerical analysis. Particularly useful is a comparison at the end of every topic showing the accuracy of each method in predicting a property. Presented in tabular form, it allows the reader to choose a method which is sufficient for his/her needs. You may decide to choose a method that is less accurate but easier to program. Every chemical engineer should have this text. My only regret is that we did not have time in undergraduate to use this text. I learned its value from watching the graduate students.
The Classic Reference
When you need physical property data, and you don't have exact information; this book provides best available estimations of the physical properties. It has been a great help to me, over the years.
Excellent Guide to Workings of ASPEN Process Model
The book is an absolutely practical treatise of applied thermodymamics.The explanations of how to use property estimation methods are excellent, but invaluable are the comments on their accuracy and recommendations as to when to use which method.Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Gases    3. Liquids    4. Reference    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Technology Of Inorganic Products    8. Chemistry of non-metals & their compounds    9. Mechanics of fluids    10. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

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A classic text in a new edition.
Having worn out my original copy, purchased almost 40 year ago,
This book is no joke
If you want to know transport well, this is the best book out for anyone.These guys weren't playing games when the they wrote this book.This book is serious, but don't use it as your introductory transport book beacues it is too advanced to start with, due to the fact that it is a graduate text.Once you have a grasp for the subject then you definitely need to check it out.Look in any other book and they will have it as a reference.I dont't know why these guys don't write more books.

Good, but not great
First let me stress, this subject is hard, very hard.This may very well be the toughest subject you take in college.Regarding the book, it has some very strong points, and some very week points.
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Subjects:  1. Advanced    2. Analytic Mechanics (Mathematical Aspects)    3. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    4. Engineering - Mechanical    5. Fluid Mechanics    6. Fluid dynamics    7. Mathematics    8. Mechanics - General    9. Physics    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Transport theory    13. Industrial chemistry    14. Mechanical engineering    15. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

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A very reasonable book...
Michael Niu has once again produced a very reasonable book.This book is destined to become a standard reference and will complement the other classic in the industry very well (Bruhn's Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures).The book covers just about most topics required to perform effective practical stress analysis.Again as with Bruhn this is a bit of a cookbook, but in many instances that's what is required to design practical aerospace structures. Some of the material is a repeat of what's available in Bruhn; however, there is plenty of additional material which makes this book worth having.The big drawback of this book is that there are a lot of mistakes in the formulas, etc.This was likely a result of trying to rush the book to print.I bought the 1st edition and will likely have to wait until the 3rd or 4th edition before using this as a real reference.As pointed out in the other reviews, most of the material in this book needs to be cross referenced with other books of company manuals before being used.Having said this the book can still be very useful and one needs to remember that practical stress analysis books are scarce and so Niu is to be congratulated just for trying to put something down on paper.

Bruhn wanna-be
This book is a collection of information and data that already exist in Bruhn.I ordered my book from the author before its general release and it came with 4 or 5 pages of errata with it.There are so many more errata I have found since then.I have found this book to be useful only for the methodology of its examples; otherwise, I go back to its source (Bruhn).

Good book to perform stress analysis on aircraft structure
I'm a french stress engineer and i'm working on an Airbus project.This book is helpfull to size a part or an assemblie and to avoid one failure case. But be carefully there are some mistakes in the formulas or in thegraph so please compare with an other book like the Br�hn to avoid some bigmistake. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Science/Mathematics    2. Aerospace & aviation technology   

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Essential reading for the GA Instrument pilot
As a CFI I have numerous books in my aviation library. This book details flying in weather and the mindset required to be a safe and competent instrument pilot.
Dealing with the weather
Not a lesson on meteorology; more of a lesson on judgment and decision-making. In other words, how does one deal with the weather? What does one do with the information one has?
"The sky is my office"
It is hard to imagine a pilot with more weather flying experience than Captain Robert Buck. And much of this flying was in the old days: in the early years of the Army Air Corp and a young company called TWA. Much of this flying was accomplished without the assistance of modern instrumentation. Captain Buck travelled the world seeking the most ornery weather he could find, and then flew into it time and time again, compiling the experience and collecting the data that no one else had at the time. Captain Buck shares that experience here. This book is interesting and engaging to the flying enthusiast, essential to the VFR pilot, and absolutely priceless to the aspiring instrument pilot. Every discipline and every pastime has its classics, and WEATHER FLYING is, without a doubt, one of the classics of aviation.
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautics & Astronautics    2. Air Sports    3. Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction    4. General    5. Meteorology In Aeronautics    6. Sports & Recreation    7. Transportation    8. Aerospace & aviation technology    9. Air sports & recreations    10. Transportation / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction   

Subjects:  1. Combustion Engineering    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Christianity    7. Fossil fuel technologies    8. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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A good book for mechanical engineering, I recomnend it to my students
This book covers most of the fundamental topics in fracture mechanics. I recommend it to my undergraduate students. It is very easy to understand. This book is a fundamental source in fracture mechanics. It is a classic book recommended by numerous bibliographies regarding this field of study.

Broad overview with not much rigor
This book covers most of the fundamental topics in fracture mechanics.However, it lacks derivations of the equations, and the illustrations are a very crude.This book is probably appropriate for undergraduate level work, but not for graduate level.

a must book for mechanical engineers
This book is a must for mechanical engineers who work in the field of fracture mechanics. It covers the subjects entirely.It is very easy to understand. this book is a fundamental source in fracture mechanics ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Fracture mechanics    3. Material Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Mechanics of solids    8. Science / Mechanics   

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Excellent book for Microstation beginner
This book explains every commands in Microstation, has pictures of every dialog boxes there are and the exercises inside the CD will take you step by step through everything cover in the chapter.A very good book to learn at home by yourself.Recommend for AutoCAD or beginning user.

Helped me go from AutoCAD to Microstation
I am fairly familiar with AutoCAD but was pretty lost when it came to Microstation.I found this book very helpful to get me up to speed in Mictrostation.With the background I had in AutoCAD I quickly got through most of this book.I spent about 3 days in the book and feel pretty comfortable with the nuts and bolts of Microstation.

Preferable to _Inside MicroStation_
Looking to train our user base as part of our V8 migration, we conducted a quick study of the available published books on V8. Bentley's own supplied course material are fine as workbooks, but not much use otherwise and no doubt are gathering dust on many shelves the world over.Read more

Subjects:  1. CAD-CAM - General    2. Computer programs    3. Computer-aided design    4. Design & Drafting    5. Drafting & Mechanical Drawing    6. Engineering - Mechanical    7. MicroStation    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Business information systems    12. Computer aided design (CAD)    13. Computers / Information Technology   

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The most practical book I have ever read
The tips and guidelines of this book helped me not only to build a maintenance management system [aluminum rolling mills] from scratch but also to create a CMMS program(database) from where I could print many reports as well as work orders. Athough I have read many many books on maintenance and reliability topics, this particular book helped me to understand and apply the proposed theories focusing on details.

Doc the Guru, its not AMPSB
This is not AMPSB (another maintenace planning and scheduling book), when you read this book you can actually feel that you are in the real working world.Doc does not talk concepts he tells what happens in real Maintenance World and how to go to World Class Maintenance Management practices using 6 planning and 6 scheduling principals. I like the way Doc takes a reader through planning and scheduling of maintenance work by examples which makes this book different from other books, you cant find other texts doing this unless you are in the classroom. The Appendix about Work Order System is a million bonus for those who want to develop their SoP (Standart Operation Procedure). I will stick to this book as a reference in the process of developing a World-Class Maintenance Organization.I will also recommend this book to Maintenance Project Managers and Maintenance Management Consultants of any system (take it from me I am in aviation and I am applying his concepts). If you want to start or improve your Maintenance Planning Department START BY READING THIS BOOK.Good job Doc. If the was a 10 star I would have given it a 10star, this is a unique book I have ever read and practical to use.(...)

Ideal for all Maintenance Program Designers
Doc Palmer has provided a great tool for all Maintenance Program Designers and others to use. Mr. Palmer has provided good details and examples in the book while also making it as enjoyable to read as it is informative. I highly recommend this book to all who are step one and beyond in Maintenance Management and Development. One of the hardest espects of starting a new maintenance program for a company is often getting management to except the required changes. The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook helps by often having a ready example or referance to provide a second means to demonstrate to the client the how, why and effect on his bottom line. This reason alone is worth the cost of this book and then some.Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Management - General    3. Product life cycle    4. Production management    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Mechanical engineering    9. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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Father of the Queen of the Skies
There have been many books written about the 747, but none of them tell the human side of taking one of the largest aircraft off the drawing board and into the skies in two years time.Joe Sutter is the consumate engineer, he engages you in a voice that keeps you interested all of the way through the book.He does it in such a way that makes you feel that maybe you where there.Boeing bet the company on the 747, if it had been a failure the company would probably be a footnote in history.The company put their trust in one single man, who claims he and Boeing grew up together.Joe also includes the stories of many others along the way, he never takes credit for himself but always makes you aware that it was a team effort.In fact he leads off with a disclaimer that if he remembered it wrong he was sorry.
Joe SutterIS " one of the great ones "
The above partial quote is plagerized from Joes book as he quotes Charles Linderbergh comments about the 747 which in its entirety was " This is one of the great ones "
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Subjects:  1. Aeronautical engineers    2. Aircraft Design And Construction    3. Aviation - General    4. Aviation - History    5. Biography    6. Biography & Autobiography    7. Biography / Autobiography    8. Boeing 747 (Jet transports)    9. Design and construction    10. Historical - General    11. History Of Specific Companies    12. Personal Memoirs    13. Scientists - General    14. Transportation    15. United States    16. Biography & Autobiography / Historical   

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I would recommend foundations of mechanics by Marsden
I have to admit that I haven't thoroughly read through this text. But judging from the first 10 pages, there is a lot of mathematical handwaving. In contrast, foundations of mechanics (hereafter FOM) is far superior in that it provides all the necessary background beyond calculus and linear algebra to the reader, and is logically consistent so far in my reading. I want to mention that there are certainly complete and excellent texts out there on functional analysis, differential geometry, and topology, but many texts include way more stuff than you would want to know. In particular, it is my humble opinion that once you get to a certain point of knowledgeability of a subject like algebraic topology, you have enough of a taste for it that to learn more of the subject would only help if you were to go into research. Therefore a book like FOM provides a concise and practical treatment of those various advanced mathematics topics.

Best book on CM
Best book on CM (based most on symplectic formulation). Extremely clear if one has enough patience to follow exactly the author's way and to work out the proposed stimulating problems. Contains an original way of introducing differential forms, integration of differential forms and homology/De Rahm's thm.: you fully get in the subject in few pages ! The first part does not make use of symplectic formalism but is also quite original and stimulating. The level is last yr. undergr. 1st yr. graduate. Very useful if used with E. ott (Chaos in Dynamical Systems) for studying nonlinear dynamics.

Encyclopedic
Extremely stimulating, uses Galileo to motivate Newton's laws instead of postulating them. Treatment of Bertrand's theorem is beautiful, but contains one error (took me 2 years before I realized where..). However, I know of only one physicist who successully worked out all the missing steps and taught from this book. I know mathematicians who have cursed it. I used/use it for inspiration. The treatment of Liouville's integrability theorem, I found too abstract, found the old version in Whittaker's Analytical Dynamics to be clearer (Arnol'd might laugh sarcastically at this claim!)--for an interesting variation, but more from the standpoint of continuous groups, see the treatment in ch. 16 of my Classical Mechanics (Cambridge, 1997). In my text I do not restrict the discussion of integrability/nonintegrability to Hamiltonian systems but include driven dissipative systems as well. Another strength of Arnol'd: his discussion of caustics, useful for the study of galaxy formation (as I later learned while doing work in cosmology). Also, I learned from Arnol'd that Poisson brackets are not restricted to canonical systems (see also my ch. 15). I guess that every researcher in nonlinear dynamics should study Arnol'd's books, he's the 'alte Hasse' in the field. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Mathematical Analysis    4. Mathematical Physics    5. Mathematics    6. Mechanics (General)    7. Mechanics - General    8. Mechanics, Analytic    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Classical mechanics    11. Mathematics / Mathematical Analysis    12. Mathematische Physik    13. Mechanik   

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Simplifying nuclear physics and engineering
This book is pure fun to read... easy to follow, clearly written, and full of cool graphs. It invokes the engineer, physicist, and statistician in you all at once. If for nothing else but having fun, you should get a copy and read it.
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Subjects:  1. Energy    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Engineering - Nuclear    4. Nuclear Engineering (General)    5. Nuclear engineering    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Atomic & molecular physics    10. Nuclear power & engineering    11. Nuclear structure physics    12. Science / Energy   

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well organised and illustrated.Lacking in metric info.
I find this book clear and easy to read on machiningtopics. The photographs and illustrations fit well with the text. Generally a worthwhile beginners tointermediate book for pre apprentice to 3rd year. However in future editions I would like to see ISO metric information on topics such as threads and tapers along with limits and fits. I would also like to see a change to more up to date toolposts andtool holders for the lathes. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Industrial    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Machine-shop practice    4. Machine-tools    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Manufacturing technologies    9. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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Still Waiting
I ordered this book about 2mths ago and still havenot recieved the book.

Bleh
I have never seen a textbook with such a sparse amount of explanation.Some of the sections are litterally a couple paragraphs, and they repeat themselves constantly.But they do a good amount of examples and have put a lot of effort into their illustrations.So, meh.

Overpriced>>No sol'n
Like the previous two reviews stated...the book is way overpriced and I had to buy a solution manual from Amazon.uk because apparently they dont sell it here??If your teacher doesn't assign homework get a previous edition because the examples and explanation are the same... ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Dynamics    2. Engineering - General    3. Engineering - Mechanical    4. Engineering Mechanics    5. Mechanics - Dynamics - General    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Dynamics & vibration    10. Mechanical engineering    11. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

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a Lean approach to machinery maintenance processes
Provides the insight that as an organization leans its manufacturing processes, it must also address machinery maintenance processes or reliability suffers. It gives a good background on Lean Manufacturing and rationale for using a lean approach on maintenance processes, along with an excellent "how to" guide for implementing.

A Great "How To" Text
The book provided an interesting background and history. Once it got into the actual elements of Lean Maintenenance, the text was very comprehensive. It provided a step-by-step process for setting up a lean maintenance program -- a cook-book approach. Missed the Lean point
Good maintenance book, but it missed the point on lean by a mile.If you just what some of the lean ideas, but not how they relate to maintenance it may be for you. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Engineering - Industrial    3. Engineering - Mechanical    4. Just-in-time systems    5. Management - General    6. Manufacturing processes    7. Production management    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Engineering: general    11. Technology / Engineering / Industrial   

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Great warehousing and material handling book
This is the best book I've ever found on material handling and warehouse storage. Though a little pricey, this book has content that makes it well worth the cost. Extensive detail on material handling and storage equipment. Also has separate chapters dedicated to small item warehouses, case-pick warehouses, and pallet warehouses.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Engineering - Industrial    5. Engineering - Mechanical    6. Handbooks, manuals, etc    7. Management    8. Materials Management    9. Physical distribution of goods    10. Production & Operations Management    11. Warehouses    12. Distribution & warehousing management    13. Management of real estate, property & plant    14. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical