Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook

Description

In response to this exciting, dynamic atmosphere, the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook expanded dramatically, from one to four volumes for the third edition, published in November 2005. It not only incorporated updates and revisions to chapters in the second edition, published seven years earlier, but also added 24 chapters on entirely new subjects, with updates and revisions to chapters in the Handbook ofMaterials Selection, published in 2002, as well as to chapters in Instrumentation and Control, edited by Chester Nachtigal and published in 1990, but never updated by him.
The fourth edition retains the four-volume format, but there are several additional major
changes. The second part of Volume I is now devoted entirely to topics in engineering mechanics, with the addition of five practical chapters on measurements from the Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering, published in 2013, and a chapter from the fifth edition of Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, published in 2009. Chapters on mechanical design have been moved from Volume I to Volumes II and III. They have been augmented with four chapters (updated as needed) from Environmentally Conscious Mechanical Design, published in 2007. These chapters, together with five chapters (updated as needed, three from Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, published in 2007, and two from Environmentally Conscious Materials Handling, published in 2009) in the beefed-up manufacturing section of Volume III, give the handbook greater and practical emphasis on the vital issue of sustainability. Prefaces to the handbook’s individual volumes provide further details on chapter additions, updates and replacements.