Best machinery engineering books according to redditors
We found 45 Reddit comments discussing the best machinery engineering books. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 45 Reddit comments discussing the best machinery engineering books. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
I recommend Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design.
Most engineers have this on their desk
https://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
Machine Design by Norton
Theory of Machines and Mechanisms by Shigley
are considered the two bibles on machine design and are common in machine design courses.
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
The Machinery's Handbook is a must have and I assume you already know about this.
Mechanisms and Mechanical Designs Sourcebook is good to help spark ideas or solve problems. There are other books along the same lines.
There's information on tolerancing and machining in The Machinery's Handbook especially. I'm not sure on other resources for those. There are books on manufacturing processes that'll discuss the tolerances capable and design limitations.
I'm using Precision Machining Technology at school right now. Covers pretty much everything, from basic hand tools right up to programing G-code. You can get a second hand copy pretty cheap.
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Between those texts, you will have everything you need to know about stress analysis and design in products.
There's a book by John Vance that is very good.
edit: I'm referring to this book
You can find formulas for gear force/strength in Shigley's. You kind of need to know the material properties to find out the max torque but you can just use a general steel.
150NM (110ft*lbs) isn't a massive amount, so if you keep the RPM down low so friction isn't a major concern I wouldn't assume there would be an issue.
A book that gets mentioned a lot is Shigley's. It covers the basics of design for a wide variety of mechanical components including gears, shafts, bearings, etc. It also covers stuff like material stress, fatigue, and failure theory. I don't know what you're printing or what is it for, but this should help for anything that's not too complicated.
Good old Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design
I took this test (well, I took the paper one, so YMMV). Get the MERM, along with the practice problems/solutions by the same publisher. Get the NCEES practice exam. Get an old edition of Shigley's. Get a thermo book for the tables. Get some sort of HVAC book, and learn how to read those ASHRAE charts.
I went through the MERM, marking useful pages with flags. After each chapter, I went through the sample questions, and flagged the pages in my references that had useful info. The weekend before the test, I barricaded myself in my office to do the practice exam, exam-style; with proper timing and breaks.
Don't forget snacks and earplugs. If the snacks are crinkly, repackage them into a sandwich bag.
A book I like a lot is Orbital Mechanics by Prussing and Conway
There's Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by Bates, Mueller and White. This Dover book is inexpensive.
I did a coloring book on conic sections and orbital mechanics. Mostly Kepler stuff and a little Newton. No Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation in this edition.
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0073398209/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_j2lvDb8VCN7D4
I believe this is what you need
From what I have learned so far it is just basic trig functions. This is the book I be using this fall. I am sure some machinist with more experience will chime in soon.
This looks interesting: Analytical Mechanics of Gears.
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Machines-Mechanisms-John-Uicker/dp/0195371232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485576637&sr=8-1&keywords=theory+of+machines+and+mechanisms
This is what we used in school. It's ok, but not the best. I've come across a series of mechanism reference books from the 60s at a previous job. However I was too stupid to write down the name. All I remember is it was blue and there was 3 books.
I personally did not care for the Philpot book. I found the Hibbeler Mechanics of Materials book to be far superior. However, I had to purchase the online version of the textbook for my class and I found the animations for that text to be very helpful.
When it comes to the Machine Design course I really liked Machine Elements in Mechanical Design by Mott, and Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. Machine Design by Norton was my required text for my Machine Design course and the rest of the class, including myself, found that text to be very difficult to follow. It felt like, at least in the fourth edition, the author released a new edition without thoroughly checking his examples. Therefor, about 9 weeks into the course the professor decided to switch textbooks and assigned yet another text for the class. Having fallen for that trap already, I did a quick amazon search and bought the highest rated machinery design textbook; which was the textbook by Mott.
Also, keep in mind that you don't have to spend $100 for a textbook that is not required for the class. Do as I did and purchase either an international edition or better yet and old edition for which you can easily obtain a solutions manual.
It should go without saying that there are many avenues for purchasing textbooks online. I used to frequent Abebooks, but Amazon has since bought it and I have found that their prices have began to increase. Your best bet is to use a site like Bigwords because a site like that searches many textbook websites for all of the textbooks you want, then picks the best price including things like shipping and coupon offers.
Best of luck.
Start here: Low Pressure Boilers
amazon.com/dp/0826943659
It's pretty much the standard text for boilers.
Design of Machinery covers kinematics and dynamics. You're thinking of Machine Design: https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Design-5th-Robert-Norton/dp/013335671X/
The stock answers are Roark's if it was full of equations, or Shigley's if it was full of diagrams.
Maybe Machinery Handbook, but it doesn't sound like it.
You might take a look at this video, its a 1953 training film from the US Navy that covers the basics of a mechanical fire control computer. It includes information on a large number of mechanisms that would be helpful in making a mechanical computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
EDIT: You might also grab an older edition of Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design: http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
The big one was Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. All the NCEES test development is done at Clemson and living in SC, a lot of those professors teach prep classes. This one was recommended far and above any other textbook for Machine Design stuff.
I think, in total, I brought in the MERM (heavily marked and noted), the MERM problem guide, the two practice exams, the Machinery's Handbook, Shigley's book, the conversion guide, a couple of the guides given to me at the prep classes (which were mostly focused on HVAC and fluids as my weak points).
The most use came out of the MERM obviously, but there were some questions on the tests that were verbatim out of the problem sets. It was all the right amount of stuff to bring without getting too bogged down in the materials (like the CEs I saw that brought in rolling carts worth of materials).
See this wiki page to get an idea of what engineers do for work on a daily basis: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/wiki/workexperience#wiki_work_experience
> I don't want to get as specific as individual circuits or servos, I'd rather find and source those systems and then add them together to make a larger project.
Broadly speaking, this is called electromechanical design, which is simply combining electrical design and machine design. Often when a vehicle gets complex enough, the electrical design and mechanical design are split off into two teams (with sub-teams for each subsystem in those categories), and a third team is created to integrate the two together. The people who make sure all the different subsystems play together nicely are sometimes called Systems Engineers or Integration Engineers, or more jokingly "Engineering Engineers".
I don't know much about the electrical side, but for machine design most people including myself are going to recommend Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. I suggest getting the 9th Edition or newer just for the introduction chapter, which is one of the best overviews of engineering I've read. You will also want to learn Statics and Dynamics which is a 2nd year course for a wide range of engineering disciplines.
UAVs (commonly called 'drones') are an electromechanical system as most modern vehicles today are, but being an airborne system you will also need some understanding of aerodynamics. Most aerospace engineering undergrads learn this at the beginning of their 3rd year because you need an understanding of vector Calculus and dynamics before grasping concepts in aerodynamics.
As far as I can tell you sit in a room and look stuff up in this
[Design of Machinery] (http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Resource-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/007742171X)
Shigley's Design
How does Roark's compare to Shigley's?
Thanks for the reply good man. I like the idea with balls. However, I only have 1 Kinect and the motion would be quite slow to start with. Have you considered using Euler parameters to deal with singularity (1, 2, chapter 6)?
EDIT: Speaking of simulating tools: I will check JOGL and thought that you'd like to look at RobWork - comes with many libraries containing useful algorithm (includes few that deal with avoiding singularities) and vizualization tools.
pdf easy to find on google
take a look at this. it realy dumbs down a lot of stuff for beginners, but also includes some stuff pertaining to entry level cnc programming. I think it goes over like coolant compositions, types of mills and lathes, types of cutting tools, processes and such. Has lots of illustrations and, as my cnc instructor says, pitchers for the visual learner.
edit forgot to put the name of the book/ a link
nims precision machining technology book
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0826943659/ref=pd_aw_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7K6PA11CVJRKW14CVWYW
There's two textbooks that are commonly used to teach material behavior and mechanical component design (such as springs, bearings, etc). Both these textbooks are what I had to learn with.
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Behavior-Materials-4th-Edition/dp/0131395068
http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
Both these textbooks are easily to obtain if yer a pirate, as well as the solution manuals. They start fairly basic, however, they quickly go quite in depth. Shigley will probably be most useful for you, but definitely flip through them both. There will be a lot of over-lap content wise. I doubt you will find any textbook material on starter springs specifically because they are a specialty spring, however, mechanics of springs still apply to them.
Have fun :p Component design can get very complicated and convoluted so try and not get frustrated if things don't make sense. Let me know if you have any more questions, and feel free to PM at anytime. I can't promise I'll have a good or correct answer for you all the time, but I can try. Component design was actually one of my least favorite classes so it's definitely not my strong suit, but I understand the majority of what is taught in Shigley's and Dowling's.
Shigley's Mechanical engineering and Design seems to be the standard for mechanical engineering.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199837708/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Orbital Mechanics, by Prussing and Conway.
From what I hear, it's the best. I have it myself, although I haven't used it too much (been busy with other stuff). I CAN tell you, however, that it does include a chapter specifically on ion propulsion, which is what I've been chipping at every now and then. Maneuver nodes work pretty decently with high thrust engines, but not so much for low thrust, which is where the book can help you. The downside is that it's not cheap. I paid about 110 bucks for it on Amazon.
Also, that ion propulsion chapter (or low thrust engines in general, to be more exact) isn't in the first edition, it's in the newer second edition. Legitimately the first time I've actually been happy for an updated edition of a book.
All of my 2004-2006 engineering discipline (300/400 level) classes were book required but not mandatory (i.e. you didn't have to purchase your own book if you could find it by other means).
Orbital Mechanics lasted 19 years until a second edition came out (surprisingly, I would have thought they'd updated a few case scenarios for that field between 1993 and 2012),
Those professors swapped who taught the class each year, and were super non-chalant about whether you had actually bought your own book; they'd print out a stack of end-of-chapter questions for any who wanted to take a copy and just big-balls it based on notes taken in lecture. Most other professers did expect you to have a book, but really didn't care if you had a later edtion (though it was your own problem if your edition's questions didn't match up; solvable by having a study group with a proper-edition book available from the library).
I guess what I'm saying is things went to shit, and it sucks to be you.
Hello, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering here. I took a class in Orbital Mechanics during Undergrad, taught by the man who wrote the book on the subject.
So, short answer: no limit, as long as you get the math right.
The basic physics behind gravity assists involves a fun interplay between conservation of momentum and gravity. If you have a spacecraft flying through space, and it encounters the gravity well of a massive object also flying through space, the spacecraft will naturally be drawn TOWARD that planet. This gravity pull will naturally ACCELERATE that object. Slower spacecraft or spacecraft pointed more or less directly at the planet will simply run into the planet. However, if the spacecraft has enough of its own momentum built up and approaches the planet roughly tangential to that planet's own trajectory thru space, the spacecraft will benefit from the accelerating boost in speed from that planet's gravity but still have enough forward momentum to escape the planet's gravitational pull on keep on its merry way through space, now moving a little bit faster than before.
So, as long as you can keep finding that sweet spot around a planet where you don't crash into the planet and don't miss its gravity well entirely, you can keep benefiting from the accelerating affects of gravity.
Oh crap yeah u right I found this book to be helpful as well https://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209
That would be absolutely amazing. Thanks for all your help. The ISBN for the book is: 9780136123705. And here is a link to the Amazon page for it.
The problem isnt with the power output. Power output is based on the rate at which the brushes in the alternator are spinning. There is a torque that we have to overcome in order to spin those brushes. Because of how the bike was geared in that video the rider had to work really hard to push those pedals and spin the system. A better option would be to reduce the gear size at the pedal. You would still have to spin faster but its easier to spin faster than to push harder. A flywheel would also conserve angular momentum and give the rider the chance to take a breather.
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