Design Engineer's Reference Guide: Mathematics, Mechanics, and Thermodynamics

ISBN-13: 9781466592858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 357 str.

Keith L. Richards

Opis

'Design Engineer's Reference Guide' provides engineers with a roadmap for navigating through common situations or dilemmas. It starts off by introducing reference information on the coverage of differential and integral calculus, Laplace's transforms, determinants and matrices.

Spis treści

Mathematics. Introduction to Numerical Methods. Properties of Sections and Figures. Statics. Dynamics. Mechanical Vibrations. Introduction to Control Systems Modelling. Physics. Thermodynamic Basics. Fluid Mechanics. Introduction to Linkages. Index.

O autorze

Keith Richards is a retired mechanical design engineer who has worked in the industry for over 55 years. Initially he served an engineering apprenticeship with B.S.A. Tools, a company that manufactured a wide range of machine tools. On leaving B.S.A., he served as a freelance engineering designer in a wide range of industries that also included aluminum rolling mill design, industrial fork lift trucks, and the Hutton tension leg platform, an offshore oil production platform. In later years, Richards was involved in the aerospace industry working on projects covering aircraft undercarriages, environmental control systems for the military and commercial aircraft.