Mechanical Engineering Textbooks

good for you.

I had once belonged to the McGraw Hill Engineers book club, which they stopped back in the 90's.

I had built up quite a personal library of books, with a wide spectrum of topics. Thermals, Stress, Pumps, Project Management, Manufacturing, Mechanisms, Filtrations, ect.....

And say for example a book of 700 pages, I may only needed a page or 5 out of it. Depends on what I am doing at the time. One book it only had a paragraph I needed to explain a solution.

But of all these books, one stands out, Its called the "McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms" . I have the Fifth additions. Check out thier site.

I had used this often, came with a 3 1/2" diskette spelling dictionary for MS Word.

I used it to basically to bone when I talk to colleagues on a project, that are specialists in their field. and if they are using terms I don't understand I do ask, and at times look it up and compare it to their explanation.

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- Perry's chemical handbook

- DUBBEL Handbook of Mechanical Engineering (a must have) - {Snoeck's Almanac (for the farmers LOL)}

Blodgett's Design of Weldments, available from Lincoln Arc Welding Institute, Euclid, OH. An excellent book and cheap.

and a twin to that: Blodgett's Design of Welded Structures

Not all of these may apply to your situation, but many may be useful:

A current addition of Machinery's Handbook.

Industrial Refrigeration Handbook, by Wilbert F. Stoecker.

Carrier's Air Conditioning Company's Handbook of Air Conditioning System Design.

Current editions of applicable codes to your locale, from UPC, UFC, UMC, IPC, IFC, IMC, NEC, ASHRAE 15, ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, ASME B31.5 Piping, AISC Steel Construction Manual, various API codes, etc.

A McMaster-Carr and/or W.W. Grainger catalog.

Some vendor literature in these categories: hydraulics, pumps, valves, pneumatics, electrical controls, gears/chains/belts/drives. (Both catalog data and technical literature as available.)

Perhaps for fun, I think McMaster-Carr has a multi-volume set on Ingenious Mechanical Devices.

I envy you; my company's budget/policies tend not to support this.

In site 4Shared, just write a name (or word) of a book or any title you need, you will find a hundreds of free downloads.

• Try Piping , Plant Engineering & Mechanical Engineering.

• This file PIPING_Books_Downloads includes a lot of clickable piping books.

You may look at Hamrock's or Shigley's ME texts for such subjects as fatigue, failure, stress calculations, etc.

Munson's fluid dynamics text, Moran and Shapiro's thermo text, and Incropera's heat transfer text are also possibilities.

eBay is a source, and Half.com as well.

All engineers need a good personal reference library. Good luck in acquiring yours.

Schaum-Outline Series are self help books that are very easy to read and understand. They are in all college bookstores. Schaum is a division of McGraw Hill Publishers. One I refer to frequently is titled Fluid Flow

PEbob

Kempes Engineers Yearbook,

Machinery's Handbook,

Pump Handbook - Karrasik (Good general book) , or Centriguagal pumps - Stepanoff, or Centrifugal pumps - design - Lobanof.

Handbook of Engineering Calculations - Hicks, Tyler G

Lots of good suggestions, it's worth remembering that many of these books don't change much over the years so you can get more for your money by buying them 2nd hand.

(Edit: Forgot some quotation marks)

As diverse as engineering is as a field, so to are the plethora of tomes on the subject. Leaning towards the original poster's request related to Piping and Plant Engineering, here are some additional suggestions not already mentioned:

First and foremost, although this is 'catalog' it is one of the best references I have ever had related to piping and fittings. My father gave it to me and although it was copyrighted back in 1960, the information in it is still VERY useful:

Crane Valves and Fittings Catalog No. 60

"Crane Technical Paper No. 410 (TP-410) is the quintessential guide to understanding the flow of fluid through valves, pipes and fittings, enabling you to select the correct equipment for your piping system."

"Piping System Fundamentals: The Complete Guide to Gaining a Clear Picture of Your Piping System is an extensive look at the main conditions affecting the operation of a piping system, describing the interaction between pumps, compressors, pipelines, control valves, and other components."

"Written by Michael Volk P.E., an acclaimed expert in the field, Pump Characteristics and Applications, Second Edition is an invaluable day-to-day reference for mechanical, civil, chemical, industrial, design, plant, project, and systems engineers; engineering supervisors; maintenance technicians; and plant operators. It is also an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in departments of mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technology, or engineering technology."

Additionally, since you've asked about piping, I am presuming that you will also dealing with fluid power, as such these are invaluable text books as well:

Womack Educational

And finally, related to 'Plant Engineering', I'm reading into that as facility maintenance & engineering, so that is a pretty broad spectrum. So, here is an equally broad spectrum of excellent text books that you can select from to satisfy your needs:

Maintenance Resources Text Book List

(edit) Forgot that I also wanted to include this list of excellent references since you had mentioned that you are a Project Engineer: Library of PMI Global Standards (edit)

Enjoy,

JavaHead

Ah, yes, the Orange Bible!

Thanks for the other suggestions, too.

Nobody should be sarcastic about this kind of request. Can't help you with process engineering, but a general Mechanical Engineering book is Mark's Standard Handbook of Mechanical Engineering edited by Avalone and Baumeister. I believe the Brits have a similar handbook, but I forget the name. Maybe somebody will jump in.