Machine Design: An Integrated Approach, Third Edition
Author: Robert L. Norton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright 2006, 983 pp.
ISBN 0-13-048190-8
A thorough, up-to-date, and comprehensive textbook dealing with machine design that emphasizes both static and fatigue failure theory and analysis as well as emphasizing the synthesis and design aspects of machine elements. The book points out the commonality of the analytical approaches needed to design a wide variety of elements and emphasizes the use of computer-aided engineering as an approach to the design and analysis of these classes of problems. It includes a chapter on the proper application of meshing and boundary conditions to finite element analysis of stress and deflection in machine elements.
The book presents an integrated approach to the design of machine elements by tying together the usual set of machine-element topics with a series of case studies that demonstrate the interrelationships between force, stress and failure analysis in real-world design. While emphasizing the design and synthesis aspects of the subject, the book nevertheless presents a thorough and complete treatment of the requisite engineering mechanics topics and provides a good balance between synthesis and analysis.
The text is divided into two parts. The first part presents the fundamentals of design, materials, stress, strain, deflection, and failure theories, including an introduction to fracture mechanics. The second part treats the design of specific elements such as springs, gears, shafts, etc., but does so in the context of their use in integrated assemblies. The case studies provide the vehicle for this, with different elements of the same assembly being addressed in various chapters. The main emphasis is on designing for high-cycle fatigue loading of machine parts and assemblies.
The machine-design subject matter is presented in an up-to-date manner using computer-aided-design techniques. Most of the 75 examples and 25 case-study analyses are solved with equation solvers and over 1000 files of examples, case studies, and sample solutions to problems are provided on the attached CD-ROM for use with Excel, MATLAB, Mathcad, and TKSolver. A number of author-written programs for kinematic, dynamic, and stress analysis are also included.
What users say about the book:
"The book is one of the best-written on any engineering subject that I have come across. We switched to the book because we felt that the students would get a lot out of reading the text."
-Professor Ed Howard, Milwaukee School of Engineering
"(The) writing is clear and meaningful, (and the) text is much more accessible to students because of the practical nature of (its) case studies and problem sets."
-Professor Douglas Walcerz, York College of Pennsylvania
"I enjoy using your textbook for my class. This is the fourth time I am using it, and it has been a great help in combining the rigor of teaching mechanical design with the practical approach. Students like it a lot, and I will continue to use this book as long as I teach this course."
-Professor Suresh G.K. Ananthasuresh
University of Pennsylvania
"...I'm doing my machine design homework now, and... your book is the single best text I have ever used in my educational career. It is straightforward, easy to understand and has good examples..."
-Josh, student, Colorado School of Mines
Machine Design has been translated into Portugese, Korean and Spanish.
Table of Contents
(English, 284K PDF)
Preface
(English, 200K PDF)
Reprinted by permission of Prentice Hall.
Additional Information on this book
Machine Design: An Integrated Approach
Features
- Review of dynamic force analysis and material properties.
- Review of fundamentals of stress analysis.
- Complete treatment of static and fatigue failure theories.
- Thorough treatment of surface fatigue failure theory.
- Introduces Finite Element Analysis with tips and cautions on its use.
- Covers design of shafts, bearings, gears, springs, fasteners, clutches, and brakes.
- Over 250 TKSolver and Mathcad models included.
- Solutions Manual and Instructors CD-ROM available to Professors.