From one of the authors of The Unwritten Laws of Engineering and The Unwritten Laws of Business, this concise and readable book is an excellent primer or refresher for any professional interested in the basic principles and practices of good mechanical design. In this handy and unique volume the author uses his own experience, along with input from other expert designers, to explicitly state design principles and practices. Readers will not have to discover these principles on their own and will be able to apply these fundamental concepts throughout their designs.

This new, second edition of the 1944 classic serves as a crucial compilation of house rules, or a professional code. It addresses three areas: what the beginner needs to learn at once; laws relating chiefly to engineering executives; and purely personal considerations for engineers. Packed with contemporary examples, this new volume is a must for those entering the engineering field or those interested in improving their professional effectiveness. Key additions and changes have been included for today's engineers, and this edition is written in a style more familiar to today's readers.

Properties of Saturated and Superheated Steam in U.S. Customary and SI Units from the IAPWS-IF97 International Standard for Industrial Use. Prepared by the ASME Research and Technology Committee on Water and Steam in Thermal Systems, Subcommittee on Properties of Steam

This book contains a collection of rules and techniques pertaining to kinematic aspects of machine design. The comprehensive treatment allows you to explore the venerable but somewhat obscure principles of kinematic design (widely practiced in the design of precision instruments for well over 100 years). You get a unique and powerful set of rules and techniques to facilitate the design of any machine-of every type and size. A central technique is constraint pattern analysis, which enables you to visualize the constraints and degrees of freedom of mechanical connection as patterns of lines in space. Understanding these principles, collectively called exact constraint design principles, can lead you to unobvious solutions to design problems, as well as designing for lower cost and higher performance. The book is supplemented with many hardware examples, which allow you to: acquire a greatly enhanced understanding of how machines work, improve your ability to create innovative machines, and maximize your ability to analyze and understand complex machinery.

An up-to-date and practical reference book on piping engineering and stress analysis, this book emphasizes three main concepts: using engineering common sense to foresee a potential piping stress problem, performing the stress analysis to confirm the problem, and lastly, optimizing the design to solve the problem. Systematically, the book proceeds from basic piping flexibility analyses, spring hanger selections, and expansion joint applications, to vibration stress evaluations and general dynamic analyses. Emphasis is placed on the interface with connecting equipment such as vessels, tanks, heaters, turbines, pumps and compressors. Chapters dealing with discontinuity stresses, special thermal problems and cross-country pipelines are also included. The book is ideal for piping engineers, piping designers, plant engineers, and mechanical engineers working in the power, petroleum refining, chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. It will also serve as a reference for engineers working in building and transportation services. It can be used as an advance text for graduate students in these fields.

Now you can LEARN, PRACTICE and APPLY the transformative Needs Focused(TM) classroom management techniques.

Used in conjunction with the best-selling Take Control of the Noisy Class, this workbook gives teachers the opportunity to further explore and understand the Needs Focused Classroom Management philosophy. Through a series of practical exercises and thought-provoking questions Rob Plevin will teach you to fully understand the 7 key steps to classroom management success in the shortest possible time.

You'll learn:

✓ The essential first steps to classroom management success. Without these in place teaching will always be an uphill battle.

✓ How to automate your classroom - the key routines you MUST establish to eliminiate classroom chaos

✓ How to give instructions so that your students will LISTEN and do as they are asked.

✓ How the right type of consequence can bring an instant end to behaviour problems.

✓ How to deliver consequences in a way which PROMOTES respect from your students.

✓ How to build the kind of teacher-student relationships which change lives. THIS is where the magic happens.

✓ How to create a (VERY) positive classroom environment so that your lessons are the most popular in school

✓ How to ensure your students behave appropriately in lessons (HINT: this happens OUTSIDE your classroom).

✓ Plus much more.

★ Also provides the basis for effective, affordable staff development. ★

The Take Control of the Noisy Class Workbook is the perfect resource for affordable staff development - with a brief after school or pre-school meeting being a great source of new skills for a whole department or small group of teaching colleagues. Included with the workbook are guidelines for running Study Group meetings together with a range of suitable group activities, scenarious and prompts to bring the strategies to life and help staff members solve difficult management problems and situations.

This hands-on, engaging companion to Take Control of the Noisy Class is the perfect way to develop and perfect outstanding classroom management skills.

Examining the fundamentals of machinery diagnostics for those working with rotating machinery, this volume prepares engineers, researchers, and students for the future of rotor dynamics and bearing technology, especially pressurized bearings. Demystifying important concepts in the diagnosis of machinery malfunction, it serves as an essential reference for anyone who works with rotating machinery, from operator to manager and from design engineer to machinery diagnostician. The book features hundreds of full color illustration explaining key concepts, numerous detailed case histories demonstrating actual solutions to machinery problems, and a comprehensive glossary of diagnostic terms.

Fully updated for the 2020 Edition of the ASME B31.3 Code, this fourth edition provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.3 Code requirements for process piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage of the Code that is available today and is packed with additional information useful to those responsible for the design and mechanical integrity of process piping. The author and the primary contributor to the fourth edition, Don Frikken are long-serving members, and prior Chairmen, of the ASME B31.3, Process Piping Code committee.

Dr. Becht explains the principal intentions of the Code, covering the content of each of the Code's

chapters. Book inserts cover special topics such as calculation of refractory lined pipe wall temperature, spring design, design for vibration, welding processes, bonding processes and expansion joint pressure thrust. Appendices in the book include useful information for pressure design and flexibility analysis as well as guidelines for computer flexibility analysis and design of piping systems with expansion joints.

From the new designer wanting to known how to size a pipe wall thickness or design a spring to the expert piping engineer wanting to understand some nuance or intent of the code, everyone whose career involves process piping will find this to be a valuable reference.

The Water Technology Subcommittee of the ASME Research and Technology Committee on Water and Steam in Thermal Systems, under the leadership of Mr. Robert D. Bartholomew has revised the Consensus on Operating Practices for the Control of Feedwater Boiler Water Chemistry in Modern Industrial Boilers, first published in 1979 with prior revisions published in 1994 and 1998.The task group consisted of a cross section of manufacturers, operators, chemical treatment contractors and consultants involved in the fabrication and operation of industrial and institutional boilers. Members of this group are listed in the acknowledgments.

This current document is an expansion and revision of the original, with reordered and modified texts where considered necessary. While significant revisions have been incorporated, it is recognized that there are areas of operating practice not addressed herein. Additional information is available from the references. It is the plan of the ASME Research Committee to continue to review this information, and revise and reissue this document as necessary to comply with advances in boiler design and water conditioning technology.

An authoritative guide to key engineering management principles and practices, this book is divided into eight concise domains of engineering management knowledge, which are further broken down into 46 knowledge areas and 210 sub-knowledge areas. This guide covers a wide range of management topics and practices, including market research, product development, organizational leadership and the management of engineering projects and processes. A diverse panel of practicing engineers and subject matter experts from across industry, government and academia, formed a committee of professionals to develop a readable, comprehensive, user-friendly body of knowledge guide. Whether you're a practicing engineer, an engineering manager, or a trainer of engineers, you'll find this easy-to-use guide an indispensable resource.

This book is intended to be a practical tool rather than purely theoretical
as one might find in many management books released today. Much
of the book is based on practical experience, strategies and techniques
attempted with various experience levels from interns and students
to managing Ph.D. level engineers and scientists. Many of the
experiences are special to me because of the situations that had to be
overcome. As you read, you may identify situations that you connect
with and say yes, that has happened to me. International project
management is bound to grow as the digital world permits more and
more individuals onto the superhighway. As I'm editing this second
edition, we're in the middle of quarantine for the COVID-19 situation.
Recognizing the benefits of lower cost labor or improved productivity
in another nation is old news. For centuries individuals have made
their entire life substance by trading internationally via wagon, boat or
train. Today the transportation mechanisms and communication tools
are far more advanced, but the principles are the same. We can use digital media to advance the causes of project management.
For an individual in engineering, presumably in mechanical engineering for many interested in this book, the first piece of advice is to recognize that you will be challenged to balance engineering and project management. Step back from the product, equipment or service that you are in charge of and realize that it is the end-result of a project. Focusing on the project will help the product, but just as important, the time and budget delivery.

This document's purpose is to provide pipeline operators with historical data on line pipe, so that they will be able to operate their pipelines, particularly the older ones, with greater confidence in their safety and reliability. The document is comprised of four major sections. The first explains the manufacturing processes that have been and are being used to make line pipe. The second presents tables by type of pipe listing the manufacturers of line pipe, past and present, in North America. At the end of this section some techniques for identifying unknown pipe samples are presented. In the third section the API line pipe specifications as they have evolved since 1928 are reviewed. The fourth section is a glossary of terms frequently associated with line pipe manufacturing.

While several books are available that provide a general overview of centrifugal compressor aerodynamic technology, this book is unique in that it fully describes a working design and analysis system with all of the interacting procedures, design guidelines, and decision processes required. This book describes the author's own centrifugal compressor aerodynamic design and analysis system, and the strategy he uses while applying it. He provides a description sufficiently complete that both new and experienced compressor aerodynamicists will fully understand the methods used. This includes the basic thermodynamic and fluid dynamic principles, empirical models, and key numerical methods, which form the basis of these design and analysis methods. This book provides a comprehensive aerodynamic design and analysis system for centrifugal compressors that has produced significant performance improvements in recent years. It uses practical and efficient methodology and requires minimal resources for its implementation. A personal computer of modest capability is adequate for implementing and using all of the procedures described in this book.

This second edition has been revised and updated.

Not intended to be read from cover to cover, this book was

designed instead to be a quick and useful reference for students,

young engineers, and experienced professionals alike.

It provides guidelines, advice, and technical information for

preparing formal documents-covering a range of report formats

(e.g. assessment, laboratory and progress reports).

This concise, no-nonsense guide provides alphabetically ordered

and cross- referenced topics, which make it easy to find answers

to questions related to writing a technical report or thesis.

Topics include: the format and content of reports and theses;

copyright and plagiarism; print and Internet reference citation

abbreviations; units and conversion factors; significant figures;

mathematical notation and equations; writing styles and conventions;

frequently confused words; grammatical errors and punctuation.

It also provides commonsense advice on issues such as

how to get started and how to keep your reader's attention.

Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong is a collection of myths, mistakes, and lessons learned from practicing engineers involved in the field of electronic equipment cooling. Through anecdotes and stories based on his experiences at Tellabs Operations, Inc. Tony Kordyban covers basic dimensions of heat transfer concepts-mostly from real problems which were incorrectly solved at least once before a correct technique was applied. The book's 31 chapters, each on an important and relevant topic, contain simple line drawings to help illustrate the basic concepts, while the text provides accurate and complete technical explanations. The book's case study approach makes it an extremely useful and handy reference-and Kordyban's clear and entertaining writing style mixes technical subject matter with humor and is both interesting and instructive. Tony Kordyban is a thermal analysis specialist at Tellabs Operations, Inc., a billion dollar developer and supplier of telecommunications equipment. He has also worked in electronic packaging design and thermal analysis at Sola Electric and at Bell Labs.

This essential new volume provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.1 Code requirements for power piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage of the Code that is available today and is packed with additional information useful to those responsible for the design and mechanical integrity of power piping. The author, Dr. Becht, is a long-serving member of ASME piping code committees and is the author of the highly successful book, Process Piping: The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3, also published by ASME Press and now in its third edition. Dr. Becht explains the principal intentions of the Code, covering the content of each of the Code's chapters. Book inserts cover special topics such as spring design, design for vibration, welding processes and bonding processes. Appendices in the book include useful information for pressure design and flexibility analysis as well as guidelines for computer flexibility analysis and design of piping systems with expansion joints. From the new designer wanting to know how to size a pipe wall thickness or design a spring to the expert piping engineer wanting to understand some nuance or intent of the Code, everyone whose career involves process piping will find this to be a valuable reference.

This book provides a thorough description of actual, working aerodynamic design and analysis systems, for both axial-flow and radial-flow turbines. It describes the basic fluid dynamic and thermodynamic principles, empirical models and numerical methods used for the full range of procedures and analytical tools that an engineer needs for virtually any type of aerodynamic design or analysis activity for both types of turbine. The book includes sufficient detail for readers to implement all or part of the systems. The author provides practical and effective design strategies for applying both turbine types, which are illustrated by design examples. Comparisons with experimental results are included to demonstrate the prediction accuracy to be expected. This book is intended for practicing engineers concerned with the design and development of turbines and related machinery.

This book is a unique blend of history, technology review, theoretical fundamentals, and design guide. The subject matter is primarily piston aeroengine superchargers - developed in Germany during the Second World War (WWII) - which are centrifugal compressors driven either by the main engine crankshaft or by an exhaust gas turbine. The core of the book is an unpublished manuscript by Karl Kollmann, who was a prominent engineer at Daimler-Benz before and during the war.

Dr. Kollmann's manuscript was discovered by Calum Douglas during his extensive research for his earlier book on piston aeroengine development in WWII. It contains a wealth of information on aerothermodynamic and mechanical design of centrifugal compressors in the form of formulae, charts, pictures, and rules of thumb, which, even 75 years later, constitute a valuable resource for engineering professionals and students.

In addition to the translation of the original manuscript from German, the authors have completely overhauled the chapters on the aerothermodynamics of centrifugal compressors so that the idiosyncratic coverage (characteristic of German scientific literature at that time) is familiar to a modern reader. Furthermore, the authors added chapters on exhaust gas turbines (for turbo-superchargers), piston aeroengines utilizing them, and turbojet gas turbines.

Drawing upon previously unpublished material from the archived German documents, those chapters provide a concise but technically precise and informative look into those technologies, where great strides were made in Germany during the war. In summary, the coverage is intended to be useful not only to history buffs with a technical bent but also to the practicing engineers and engineering students to help with their day-to-day activities in this particular field of turbomachinery.

This research report, sponsored by the ASME Center for Research and Technology Development, has been issued in an effort to comply with the advances in equipment design and lay-up technology. Topics covered include: Factors to be Considered; Identification of Materials in Equipment; Use and Disposal of Lay-up Chemicals; Boiler Lay-up: Fireside; Lay-up of Turbine Oil System; Lay-up of Auxiliary Components and Pre-boiler Systems; Conclusions, Glossary of Terms, Tables, Figures and References; Reasons for Lay-up; Inspection and Cleaning of Equipment; Boiler Lay-up: Waterside; Steam Turbine, Turbine Condenser and Reheater Lay- up; Lay-up of Feedwater Heaters and Deaerators; Lay-up Monitoring and Maintenance; Start-up After Lay-up.