Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook Third Edition Materials and Mechanical Design Edited by Myer Kutz

Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook

Third Edition

Materials and

Mechanical Design

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Edited by Myer Kutz

The first volume of the third edition of the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook is comprised of two major parts. The first part, Materials, which has 14 chapters, covers metals, plastics, composites, ceramics, and smart materials. The metals covered are carbon, alloy, and stainless steels; aluminum and aluminum alloys; copper and copper alloys; titanium alloys; nickel and its alloys; magnesium and its alloys; and superalloys. Chapters on some of these materials, such as ceramics, smart materials, and superalloys, are updated versions of chapters that have appeared in the Handbook of Materials Selection (Wiley, 2002), and they are entirely new to the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook. The intent in all of the materials chapters is to provide readers with expert advice on how particular materials are typically used and what criteria make them suitable for specific purposes. This part of Volume I concludes with a chapter on sources of materials data, the intent being to provide readers
with guidance on finding reliable information on materials properties, in addition to those that can be found in this volume, and a chapter on analytical methods of materials selection, which is intended to give readers techniques for specifying which materials might be suitable for a particular application.
The second part of Volume I, Mechanical Design, which has 22 chapters, covers a broad range of topics, including the fundamentals of stress analysis, the finite-element method, vibration and shock, and noise measurement and control and then moving into modern methodologies that engineers use to predict failures, eliminate defects, enhance quality and reliability of designs, and optimize designs. There are chapters on failure analysis and design with all classes of materials, including metals, plastics and ceramics, and composites. I should point out that, to a large extent, the two parts of Volume I go hand in hand. After all, it is useful to know about the properties, behavior, and failure mechanisms of all classes of materials when faced with a product design problem. Coverage in the second part of Volume I extends to lubrication of machine elements and seals technology. Chapters in this part of Volume I provide practitioners with techniques to solve real, practical everyday problems, ranging from nondestructive testing to CAD (computer-aided design) to TRIZ (the acronym in Russian for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), STEP [the Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data is a comprehensive International Organization for Standardization standard (ISO 10303) that describes how to represent and exchange digital product information], and virtual reality. Topics of special interest include physical ergonomics and electronic packaging.

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