A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies.

Case Studies in Engineering Design provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible case studies which are representative of situations engineers face in professional life, and which incorporate a range of engineering disciplines.

Different methodologies of approaching engineering design are identified and explained prior to their application in the case studies. The case studies have been chosen from real-life engineering design projects and aim to expose students...

A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation has been written with the specific purpose of helping those involved in serious engineering failures. When mechanical plant fails, the technical, legal and contractual issues become very involved and complicated, and deciding causation can be difficult and prolonged. The principles and methodologies explained here will help
engineers to link their technical knowledge to the commercial realities of working with insurers, loss adjusters and their representatives.

This book is essential reading for consultants, expert...

This comprehensive sister volume to Cliff Matthews' highly successful Handbook of Mechanical Works Inspection gives a detailed coverage of pressure equipment and other mechanical plant such as cranes and rotating equipment.

Key features:

• Accessible source of information
• Lavishly illustrated with numerous diagrams, photographs, and tables
• A wealth of valuable information
• Detailed, comprehensive coverage
• Written in easily accessible style
• A 'must buy' reference book

The Handbook of Mechanical In-Service...

This book offers a thorough discussion of morphological theory and is based directly on an 'inflecting' or 'fusional' language - Latin.