George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket is an important early locomotive of 1829, considered the progenitor of main-line railway motive power. In connection with an exhibition at the Science Museum in London, a research project at Britain's National Railway Museum investigated Rocket's engineering and history through industrial archaeology and archival research. This extensively illustrated publication—containing previously unpublished photographs, along with contemporary studies and technical drawings—explores the locomotive's significance as an artifact and its place in the history of locomotive development and railroad operation. The authors also present the findings of a detailed archaeological survey.
This book presents methods of numerically calculating heat and mass transfer in heat exchangers and facilities with channels formed by twisted tube bundles and porous heat transfer elements. Such heat exchangers can be used successfully in aviation, power engineering, transport, the chemical industry, and other areas. Mathematical descriptions and numerical modeling of the processes involved are balanced by experimental verification of the predictive methods used.
This introduction to systems engineering incorporates material from mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and chemical engineering. It provides a unified treatment of disparate physical systems, emphasizing similarities in both the modeling and the behavior of lumped-element systems. Linear graph theory is presented as a unifying framework for modeling electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and thermal systems as lumped elements. The analysis of system dynamics is done in the time domain and organized by behavioral characteristics rather than by engineering subdisciplines. Other topics introduced include the Laplace transform, state space methods, and the interaction of subcomponents of an overall system, particularly feedback systems and feedback control systems. Examples and exercise problems are included, and a solutions manual is available.
Principles, rules, guidelines, and tips useful for designers and engineers when designing mechanical parts and assemblies are presented in this book. The contents focus on mechanical design at the detailed level: how parts and assemblies should be configured for optimum performance. Methods are provided for synthesis and analysis in mechanical design. Basic design practices that will improve the strength, robustness, function, user handling, and manufacturability of parts and assemblies are described in depth. Guidelines for selecting plastic, rubber, and metal materials are presented. In addition, the book includes tips for selecting and designing components such as bolts, nuts, screws, springs, and adhesive joints.
This volume covers mechanics and dynamical systems, offering a balance between physical fundamentals and mathematical concepts. Featured topics include an overview of fundamental dynamics, both two- and three-dimensional; an examination of variational approaches, including Lagrangian theory; a complete discussion of the dynamics of rotating bodies; coverage of the three- dimensional dynamics of rigid bodies; and a detailed treatment of Hamiltonian systems and stability theory. The book contains more than 550 new problems along with user-friendly computational models using Matlab.
The author covers subsonic and supersonic flight, shock waves, high-speed airfoils, and temperature changes. Starting from first principles, the book gives complete and elementary derivations of all results, and takes the reader to research level in the subject. It includes many exercises and an extensive bibliography, providing access to the literature from 1860 to the present, with more than 200 items published since 1990. An extensive set of formulae on thermodynamics and oblique shock waves is also included.
This text presents the various mathematical methods used in military operations research, including the calculations necessary to analyze all aspects of defense operations, from weapon performance to combat modeling. The third edition has a new chapter on the theater missile defense, based on the concept of layered defense with different strategies of allocating defense interceptors against short- or mid-range ballistic missiles. Included with the text is an updated version of Defense Analyses Software, a compendium of software subroutines that allow the reader to compute numerical values for functions or tables derived in the text.
Intended as a rigorous introduction to the technology and techniques of modern ultrasonic instrumentation, this volume devotes a chapter to every major engineering area, each chapter written by one or more experts in the particular area covered. Topics include fabrication and characterization of transducers, surface acoustic wave technology, frequency control devices, and ultrasonic imaging and microscopy systems. Applications in medical diagnostics, nondestructive evaluation, and industrial control sensors are discussed. One chapter is devoted to essays on ways of bringing inventions out of the laboratory and onto the showroom floor. The authors emphasize research successes that have become commercial successes.
To enable train enthusiasts to understand the workings of the various types of engines in use, this book describes the anatomy and physiology of the steam train. It covers the design of the engine, the process of converting fuel into mechanical tractive effort to haul passenger and freight trains, the function and design of the various components of the engine, and the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of steam locomotives. Although the steam locomotive originated in the United Kingdom, there were parallel lines of development in North America and Europe, and the individual features of these are also covered.
The author of this memoir is an authority on safety in the process industries. After 14 years as a technical safety advisor with ICI, Kletz embarked upon a career as a consultant as well as a writer, commentator, and lecturer on all aspects of process safety. In this book, he recounts the story of his career and describes the challenges a young scientist or engineer starting out in industry might expect to find.
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