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 | | Mechanical Design Engineering, 6/e with Student Resources CD-ROM by Joseph Edward Shigley, Charles R. Mischke, Charles Mischke, Joseph Shigley ISBN-10: 0072373016 ISBN-10: 0-07-237301-6 ISBN-13: 9780072373011 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-237301-1 Hardcover 2001-08-02 McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description This classic text covers all the important machine elements encountered in the machine design course. The emphasis is on developing good design and problem-solving skills. The new edition highlights its emphasis on design and offers an increased opportunity to bring computer tools into the course. There is new material on boundary lubrication and sliding bearings. Many examples from industry and real engineering situations are found in the book. A good selection of case studies have been added to this edition. Overall, the book retains is strength in areas of failure prevention, reliability, quality, and design. It also provides a fresh new interior design and many new homework problems and examples. | ||
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Classic If you're a mechanical engineer who deals with mechanical assemblies, you must have this book. It was used as a textbook 10 years ago in one of my college classes, and I sold it back, only to re-purchase it later to use for my job. There's really no substitute. | ||
This is not for study...... maybe good reference This book has a lot of tables and formulae which can be applied directly to specific engineering design problems, but I have not ever learned mechanical engineering design subject. I need comprehensible and easily viewable explanations and figures to understand the basic concepts. Information in this book looks just a sequence of data with not well-organized instruction. I can not recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have a background in this subject unless you are forced to use to prepare for the Ph.D. qualifying exam based on this book, for example... | ||
Hope they proof read the 7th edition! If this book wasn't so full of valuable information, I wouldn't have given it a single star. The proof reader slept through this edition. There are more errors than I could have ever imagined. They sometimes refer to the same variable by different names in succeeding paragraphs! Many times they leave off critical subscript identifiers or don't label important values in the example figures. Small errors crop up all the way through this edition. Hope they fix the Seventh! | ||
Unsuitable for undergraduates The original Mechanical Engineering Design book written by Joseph Shigley, and later, with Larry Mitchell, was an excellent undergraduate text; it was readable at the introductory level, and it contained enough information and methodology for use as a good reference book after graduation. Unfortunately, this revised text, which was rewritten by Charles Mischke, is thoroughly unreadable, obfuscating, and is totally unsuitable as a text for undergraduate mechanical engineering students. The book is full of nuances, subtleties and informative data that do make it useful as a reference book on the shelf of an experienced design engineer, but not as a text for students learning the subject. For those who plan to teach a course for mechanical engineering majors on this topic, I recommend other texts such a Jack Collins' Mechanical Design of Machine Elements and Machines, Wiley, 2003. | ||
Well, it's helpful if you've seen the information elsewhere I had the 6th edition of this book as the primary text book in my ME design class. It certainly has a wealth of data and formulae for design, but I found its explainations and examples very vague -- particularly if you're coming to it for the first time, or even the second or third time. In fact I frequently found myself confused by information I already knew well before reading this text. If you just need a formula, this is certainly a great reference. If you really need to know how that formula is applied or how to approach the problem, I'd look elsewhere. I also agree with a previous writer: the fatigue section is particularly lacking. | ||