January 2007 Mechanical Engineering Departments: Bookshelf

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John D. Stevenson and Ovidiu Coman. ASME Press, Three Park Ave., New York, NY 10016-5990. 2006. 300 pages. ASME members, $99; retail, $125. ISBN 0-7918-0242-6.

Design of Hazardous Mechanical Structures, Systems and Components for Extreme Loads

This volume addresses the critical issue of safe design of mechanical structures, systems, and components belonging to hazardous facilities, in order to withstand the effects of extreme loads. These extreme loads may be either manmade, such as design-basis accidents, aircraft crashes or malevolent vehicle intrusions, or due to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or tornadoes. Hazardous facilities include the nuclear, petrochemical, and biomedical industries. Detailed information on governmental regulations and industry standards is provided. The structures, distribution systems, and components covered by this guide include those addressed by ASME and related standards, such as API, IBC, ASCE, and others.

David B. Mills. Copperhill and Pointer Inc., 8 Perth Ave., Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977. 2006. 107 pages. Softcover. $250. ISBN 978-1-932095-09-8.

The Consumer Guide to Industrial pH and ORP Instrumentation

This book is the latest in a series of this publisher's guides intended for people in the market to buy industrial measurement devices. An entry in the series last year mentioned in these pages was devoted to non-contact level gauges. This one discusses systems used to measure pH and oxidation-reduction potential. According to the author, a Procter & Gamble engineer, keeping track of ions in solution is important to a variety of industries, including water treatment, chemical, food, or pharmaceuticals processing, pulp and paper making, and power generation. Topics in the text include how the systems work, their features, and effects that can throw readings off. It gives brief profiles of 13 leading suppliers in the field and lists several others. The book concludes with tables comparing characteristics of select models of sensors and electronic systems available in the marketplace. Reference performance for sensors is reported in the few instances when manufacturers provided information.

Joan G. Moore and John Moore. Pocahontas Press Inc., P.O. Drawer F, Blacksburg, VA 24063-1020. 408 pages. $90. ISBN 0-926487-21-3.

Functional Reynolds Stress Modeling

According to the authors, there is finally enough data to study the functionality of the parameters in Reynolds stress modeling. They consider a range of stationary and rotating flows, and explore possible functionalities based on vorticity, rapid distortion, and the anisotropy of the Reynolds stress tensor, together with a turbulence Reynolds number. Much of the book is devoted to the development of practical models for pressure strain, both rapid and slow. The book reconciles Reynolds stress modeling with rapid distortion theory and direct numerical simulations, and provides reviews and discussion of experimental and DNS data. Use is made of glyphs to visualize turbulence stress and spectrum tensors. A CD included with the book contains data analyses, derivations of equations, and color versions of figures. Co-author John Moore is an ASME Life Member.

Robert J. Asaro and Vlado A. Lubarda. Cambridge University Press, 40 W. 20th St., New York, NY 10011-4211. 2006. 860 pages. $125. ISBN 0-521-85979-4.

Mechanics of Solids and Materials

In this book, the authors seek to provide a modern and integrated treatment of the foundations of solid mechanics as applied to the mathematical description of material behavior. They blend innovative and traditional topics in a coherent theoretical framework. The innovative topics are large strain, strain rate, temperature, time-dependent deformation and localized plastic deformation in crystalline solids, and deformation of biological networks. Elastic theory of torsion, elastic beam and plate theories, and contact mechanics are the traditional topics. Blending the topics and the extensive use of transform methods to generate solutions help make the book of interest to mechanical, structural, materials, and aerospace engineers.

Amir Faghri and Yuwen Zhang. Academic Press, an Elsevier imprint, 30 Corporate Dr., Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803. 2006. 1,030 pages. $89.95. ISBN 0-12-370610-2.

Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems

Transport phenomena are the mechanisms by which energy and mass are dissipated or otherwise move through a system or from one system to another. Multiphase transport phenomena are those same mechanisms working through change states of matter, such as solid to liquid, solid to gas, liquid to gas, and so forth. The publisher claims that this is the first textbook to "truly address transport phenomena in the context of all such phase changes, and to do so from a fundamental viewpoint, with analytical and numerical approaches, with an eye toward emerging technologies." The authors seek to develop an understanding of the thermal and physical behavior of multiphase systems with phase change, including microscale and porosity, for practical applications in heat transfer, bioengineering, materials science, nuclear engineering, environmental engineering, process engineering, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.

John C. Lippold and Damian J. Kotecki. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030. 2005. 362 pages. $115. ISBN 0-471-47379-0.

Welding Metallurgy and Weldability of Stainless Steels

This book is, according to the publisher, the first one in more than two decades to address welding metallurgy and weldability issues associated with stainless steel. The authors emphasize fundamental metallurgical principles governing microstructure evolution and property development of stainless steels. They cover the history, evolution, and primary uses of each stainless steel, including detailed descriptions of the associated weldability issues. In addition to describing the applications and limitations of stainless steels for welded construction, the book also addresses common failures in welded stainless steels associated with fabrication and service exposure, and how such failures may be avoided.

Jan Awrejcewicz and Vadim A. Krysko. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742. 2006. 256 pages. $89.95. ISBN 1-58488-677-3.

Introduction to Asymptotic Methods

Among the theoretical methods for solving many problems of applied mathematics, physics, and technology, asymptotic methods often provide results that lead to obtaining more effective algorithms of numerical evaluation. Presenting the mathematical methods of perturbation theory, this book reviews the most important methods of singular perturbations within the scope of application of differential equations. According to the publisher, the authors take a challenging and original approach based on the integrated mathematical-analysis treatment of various objects taken from interdisciplinary fields of mechanics, physics, and applied mathematics. This new hybrid approach is said to lead to results that cannot be obtained by standard theories in the field.

Michael Möser. Springer-Verlag, 233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013. 2003. 294 pages. $89.95. ISBN 3-540-20236-6.

Engineering Acoustics

This book presents the foundations of what nowadays seems necessary to make our environment quieter—in buildings as well as in the open air. Fundamental chapters on the physics and perception of sound precede those on noise reduction methods. The last chapter deals with microphones and loudspeakers. Specific measurement procedures are discussed in the book. The appendix gives a short introduction on the use of complex amplitudes in acoustics. Throughout this work, the author seeks to describe not only how a topic develops, but also why a specific way has been chosen.