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Mechanical Engineering Library

The Mechanical Engineering Library combines three classic mechanical references: Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Hick's formulas, and an interactive introduction to the finite element method. These titles have been entirely updated with a new interface and added features that take advantage of Mathcad's calculation and browsing capabilities. Because these e-books are delivered electronically for use within Mathcad, you can apply these resources every day with ease. Explanatory text and examples give you detailed background and guidance when you want it. Best of all, each title comes with word search, a hyperlinked table of contents and hyperlinked indexing.

System Requirements:

  • Updated to be compatible with Mathcad 2001 and Mathcad 2001i.
  • CD-ROM drive and Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000 or XP operating system.
  • 130 Mb of hard disk space

Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, 6th Edition

You get the complete Mathcad edition with more than 1000 separate design cases covering straight beams and bars, curved beams, plates, and shells. Includes all 37 tables of formulas in Roark's, ready to use in your Mathcad worksheets, and more than 75 detailed example problems worked out in Mathcad.

Sample Topics -- Column Buckling and Elastic Stability; Stress, Force, and Deflection Calculations for Beams; Combined Stress Formulas; Curved Beam Cross-Section Properties; Moments of Inertia; Torsional Loading; Beam Analysis for a Varying Section; Stresses and Deflections of Flat Plates; Discontinuity Analysis Results at the Junction of Shells and Plates; Natural Frequencies of Plates; Bending and Membrane Stresses of Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels; Radial Displacements; Buckling of Shells.

Machine Design and Analysis from Hicks' Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations

Adapted from the Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations (edited by Tyler G. Hicks), this Electronic Book includes over 125 machine design, analysis, and metalworking calculations. Each section in the book has a working Mathcad calculation procedure that mirrors a procedure from the original text, and includes explanatory text, tabular data, scanned-in figures, and Mathcad plots to support these working examples. Use the examples as templates for solving dozens of related problems, or as a quick-reference tool for practical engineering formulas. And because every number and formula is "live" and interactive, you can change parameters and watch Mathcad calculate answers right on the screen.

Sample Topics -- Shaft, Torque, Horsepower and Driver Efficiency; Shaft Reactions and Bending Moments; Speeds of Gears and Gear Trains; Force Ratio of Geared Drives; Roller-Bearing Operating-Life Analysis; Shock-Mount Deflection and Spring Rate; Wear Life of Roller Surfaces; Cutting Speeds for Various Materials.

Finite Element Beginnings

This Electronic Book, by engineer and teacher David Pintur, is an introduction to the principles of the finite element method. If you use, or intend to use, existing finite element packages but want a deeper theoretical understanding of the methodology, this book is ideal. Through a variety of examples, you get a solid foundation for establishing finite element applications so you can move on to more advanced programs. And, because it's based on Mathcad's "live" math environment, every number, formula, and plot can be adapted to solve your individual problems. You can change parameters and plots and watch Mathcad recalculate answers right there in the book.

Sample Topics -- Historical Perspective of the Finite Element Method, Basic Concepts of Linear Elasticity, the Principles of Minimum Potential Energy and Direct Method, Using Interpolation Concepts in One and Two Dimensions, Mapped Elements.