Recommend Mechanical Engineering Design Books 3

[morris9791]

Dear Experts,

I wish to buy a good engineering design book for use as reference.
Currently my workplace has the following:

• Machine Design: An integrated approach by Norton.
• Mechanical Engineering Design by Joseph Shigley.
• 27th Edition of Machinery's Handbook.
• Mechanics of Materials by Hidgon and a few others

My favourite is Machine Design by Norton. Does anyone recommend a similar book that’s on a par with this one? I don’t really want to buy a book I already have access to.

Topics I look for are
Design for Static strength, fatigue strength, stress analysis, deflection and stiffness, design of mechanical elements like couplings, gears, bearings etc etc.

I’m looking for a general all round type of book and with an interactive CD would be cool ?

Any information will be appreciated.

Best Regards
Eddie

 

[alansimpson]

Mark's is good for mechanical

http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/browse/display?_EXT_KNOVEL_DISPLAY_bookid=346

 

[DesignerGuy16]

Mechanicanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook - Sclater & Chironis
Engineering Formulas - Gieck

If you're doing welding at all:
Design of Weldments - Blodgett
Tubular Steel Structures - Troitsky

James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP

 

[TVP]

I have found the following books to be good, updated references on machine design, fatigue, etc.:

Machine Elements - Life and Design by Klebanov, et al, (published in 2008 by CRC Press)

http://www.engnetbase.com/ejournals/books/book_summary/summary.asp?id=6088

Fatigue of Structures and Materials, 2nd edition by J. Schijve (published in 2009 by Springer)

http://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+eng/book/978-1-4020-6807-2

Both have a different "feel" than Shigley's book, so they likely would be complimentary, with reasonable overlap but not complete redundancy.

 

[EspElement]

thanks for the posts guys.. im taking my engineering classes now and i grabbed a few of these off amazon.. im excited about getting them!

 

[flash3780]

The following are a few additional texts that I find useful:

Roark's Formulas of Stress and Strain
Peterson's Stress Concentration Factors
An Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints (Bickford)
ASME Y14.5-1994 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Mark's Handbook (available for free at asme.org if you're a member)
ASM Metal's Handbook

 

[PriamEngineering]

Mechanical Engineering Design - Shigley
(my first copy fell apart I'd used it so much)

Roarks formulas for stress and strain

two books by JE Gordon are worth a read
Structures and the New Science of strong materials

Metals in the service of man (metalurgy)Alexander and street

but the internet is your best friend

cheers

http://www.priamengineering.co.uk

 

[Dan68c]

Hi,
Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, Robert L Mott
I used this alot covers a lot of things, I think shigley is better but i think sometimes having a simpler explanation in areas it makes it easier to understand and find more info later.
Good luck.

 

[GalEng]

Shigley's Engineering Design is great

 

[Griz42]

If you join ASME, you get online access to the ASME E-library. It has about 70 online books, including Mark's.

 

[FeX32]

"• Machine Design: An integrated approach by Norton.
• Mechanical Engineering Design by Joseph Shigley."

Those 2 are very comparable.
The latter uses more vectoral notation.


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[FeX32]

also many problems may require more in depth analysis.
I suggest this text:

http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Strength-Applied-Elasticity-ebook/dp/B001M60BN2

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[SREisme]

Something else to consider in machine design is the ways the machinery will fail once put in service. They didn't teach it in school, but I recommend reviewing some of Heinz Bloch's books on machinery failure modes and troubleshooting for application on the user end.

"Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting" ISBN 0-87201-232-8

"Pump User's Handbook-Life Extension" ISBN 0-8247-4814-X

I like Shigley and Mischke's "Mechanical Engineering Design" for a good review of design principles. Granted, I am not a design engineer but rather an industrial process support engineer with a background in the maintenance of mechanical equipment and system reliability. Best of luck on your studies and future career path.