Mechanical Engineering

Turnaround, Shutdown, and Outage Management by Tom Lenahan. Shutdown management is project management of a special kind: managing the repair, replacement, or maintenance of critical systems. Manufacturing and process plants, computer systems, airliners, and many other systems must be regularly closed down or taken out of service for planned maintenance and operations. This book describes the process of managing Turnarounds. …

Root Cause Failure Analysis pdf by R. Mobley. The book provides the concepts needed to effectively perform industrial troubleshooting investigations. It describes the methodology to perform Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), one of the hottest topics currently in maintenance engineering. It also includes detailed equipment design and troubleshooting guidelines needed to perform RCFA on machinery found in most production facilities. …

Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use, and integration of the machine elements that are fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications. This updated edition includes new material on tolerancing, alternative approaches to design, and robotics, as well as references to the latest ISO and US engineering regulations. …

A Textbook of Automobile Engineering by Sudhir Kumar Saxena. The present book attempts to explain different aspects of automobile engineering in a simple way. The diagrams that have been included in the text are simple and can be followed easily. Every attempt has been made to include the latest development in this field. The book would prove useful to undergraduate/postgraduate …

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Technologies, Modeling, and Control – A Mechatronic Approach. An advanced level introductory book covering fundamental aspects, design, and dynamics of electric and hybrid electric vehicles. This book is structured to address both senior undergraduate and graduate-level courses and can serve as an excellent reference for anyone with a background in dynamics, electrical, and control engineering. The …

An Introduction to Modern Vehicle Design by Julian Happian-Smith. The book is intended to provide the reader with an introduction to most of the topics that are of concern when a vehicle is being designed from the clean sheet of the paper stage. There is a wide range of references alluded to within the text that the reader can draw …

Handbook of Large Turbo Generator Operation and Maintenance by Geoff Klempner and Isidor Kerszenbaum. This book is designed to partially fill the gap by offering a comprehensive view of the many issues related to the operation, inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting of large turbine generators. The contents of this third edition have been significantly enhanced and many new additional topics included. …

The Adlard Coles Book of Maintenance and Repair Manual for Diesel Engines. The aim of this book with its detailed step-by-step color photographs and diagrams is to enable every owner to fix their diesel engine with ease. Troubleshooting tables help diagnose potential problems, and there is advice on regular maintenance and winterizing. This book is divided into four parts. The …

Piping and Pipeline Calculations Manual. Construction, Design Fabrication, and Examination 2nd edition by Phillip Ellenberger. The basic premise of this book is that at the heart of those requirements are a series of calculations, which cover a wide range of subjects. The base codes for the design of a new system, and the ones used in this book as the …

Troubleshooting Centrifugal Pumps and Their Systems by Ron Palgrave. The book is for those new to the use and abuse of centrifugal pumps. It is also for those whose involvement with pumps is so occasional, that they need a reminder of the basics. Modern centrifugal pumps are not complex machines. Usually, they consist of a few castings, moldings, or pressings …

Turbopumps and Pumping Systems by Springer  Ahmad Nourbakhsh · André B. Jaumotte Charles Hirsch · Hamideh B. Parizi. Pumps are one of the mechanical devices that are widely used in many industries throughout the world. Turbopumps which are common types of pumps are used mainly for transporting water in agricultural units, industrial processes, cooling and heating systems, and power plants. …

The purpose of this handbook is to provide an introduction to nuclear power reactors, the nuclear fuel cycle, and associated analysis tools, to a broad audience including engineers, engineering and science students, their teachers and mentors, science and technology journalists, and interested members of the general public. Nuclear engineering encompasses all the engineering disciplines that are applied in the design, …