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1. |  Mechanics of Solids, 2nd Edition By: Abdul Mubeen Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 18-APR-2011 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mechanics of Solids, 2nd Edition
Mechanics of Solids is designed to fulfill the needs of the mechanics of solids or strength of materials courses that are offered to undergraduate students of mechanical, civil, aeronautics and chemical engineering during the second and third semesters. The book has been thoroughly revised with multiple-choice questions, examples and exercises to match the syllabi requirement of various universities across the country.
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2. |  Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines By: S. C. Gupta Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 29-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines
Fluid Mechanics And Hydraulic Machines is designed for the course on fluid mechanics and hydraulic machines offered to the undergraduate students of mechanical and civil engineering. Written in a lucid style, the book lays emphasis on explaining the logic and physics of critical problems to develop analytical skills in the reader.
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3. |  Heat and Mass Transfer, 2nd Edition By: R. Rudramoorthy; K. Mayilswamy Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 05-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Heat and Mass Transfer, 2nd Edition
Heat and Mass Transfer is designed for the core paper on Heat and Mass Transfer for the undergraduate students of mechanical engineering, and offers theory in brief, detailed derivations, plenty of examples and numerous exercise problems. This unique approach helps students apply principles to applications.
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4. |  By: N. D. Junnarkar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 26-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Machine Drawing
Machine Drawing is divided into three parts. Part I deals with the basic principles of technical drawing, dimensioning, limits, fits and tolerances. Part II provides details of how to draw and put machine components together for an assembly drawing. Part III contains problems on assembly drawings taken from the diverse fields of mechanical, production, automobile and marine engineering.
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5. |  By: U. C. Jindal Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 12-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Experimental Stress Analysis
Experimental Stress Analysis deals with different aspects of stress analysis, highlighting basic and advanced concepts, with a separate chapter on aircraft structures. The inclusion of a large number of figures, tables, and solved problems ensure a clear and thorough understanding of the concepts. Designed for undergraduate students of mechanical engineering, this takes into account the syllabi of various universities and technical institutions.
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6. |  By: Dwarka Prasad Sharma Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 31-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics is tailor-made as per the syllabus offered in the first year of undergraduate students of Engineering. The book covers both Statics and Dynamics, and provides the students with a clear and thorough presentation of the theory as well as the applications. The diagrams and problems in the book familiarize students with actual situations encountered in engineering.
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7. |  Engineering Drawing, Second Edition By: M. B. Shah; B. C. Rana Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 24-JUN-2009 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Engineering Drawing, Second Edition
The second edition of Engineering Drawing continues to cover all the fundamental topics of the field, while maintaining its unique focus on the logic behind each concept and method. Based on extensive market research and reviews of the first edition, this edition includes a new chapter on scales, the latest version of AutoCAD, and new pedagogy. The coverage of topics has been made more clear and concise through over 300 solved examples and exercises, with new problems added to help students work progressively through them. Combining technical accuracy with readable explanations, this book...
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8. |  Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach By: Mohammad H. Sadraey Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach
A comprehensive approach to the air vehicle design process using the principles of systems engineering
Due to the high cost and the risks associated with development, complex aircraft systems have become a prime candidate for the adoption of systems engineering methodologies. This book presents the entire process of aircraft design based on a systems engineering approach from conceptual design phase, through to preliminary design phase and to detail design phase.
Presenting in one volume the methodologies behind aircraft design, this book covers the components and the issues affected...
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9. |  Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics, 3rd Edition By: John M. Seddon; Simon Newman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 22-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics, 3rd Edition
Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics is widely appreciated as an easily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles of the aerodynamics of helicopter flight. Simon Newman has brought this third edition completely up to date with a full new set of illustrations and imagery. An accompanying website www.wiley.com/go/seddon contains all the calculation files used in the book, problems, solutions, PPT slides and supporting MATLAB® code.
Simon Newman addresses the unique considerations applicable to rotor UAVs and MAVs, and coverage of blade dynamics is expanded to include both flapping,...
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10. |  Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures By: John Valasek Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-APR-2012 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures
Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures provides a highly timely presentation of the state-of-the-art, future directions and technical requirements of morphing aircraft. Divided into three sections it addresses morphing aircraft, bio-inspiration, and smart structures with specific focus on the flight control, aerodynamics, bio-mechanics, materials, and structures of these vehicles as well as power requirements and the use of advanced piezo materials and smart actuators. The tutorial approach adopted by the contributors, including underlying concepts and mathematical formulations,...
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11. |  Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors By: Jean Claude Alacoque Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Publication Date: 10-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors
Clear presentation of a new control process applied to induction machine (IM), surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor (SMPM-SM) and interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPM-SM)
Direct Eigen Control for Indusction Machines and Synchronous Motors provides a clear and consise explanation of a new method in alternating current (AC) motor control. Unlike similar books on the market, it does not present various control algorithms for each type of AC motor but explains one method designed to control all AC motor types: Induction Machine (IM), Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet...
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12. |  Principles of Turbomachinery in Air-Breathing Engines By: Erian A. Baskharone Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 31-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 29-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Principles of Turbomachinery in Air-Breathing Engines
This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering taking a course commonly called Principles of Turbomachinery or Aerospace Propulsion. The book begins with a review of basic thermodynamics and fluid mechanics principles to motivate their application to aerothermodynamics and real-life design issues. This approach is ideal for the reader who will face practical situations and design decisions in the gas turbine industry. Among the features of the book are:
An emphasis on the role of entropy in assessing machine...
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13. |  By: Nicholas Cumpsty Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 14-AUG-2003 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Jet Propulsion
This is the second edition of Cumpsty's excellent self-contained introduction to the aerodynamic and thermodynamic design of modern civil and military jet engines. Through two engine design projects, first for a new large passenger aircraft, and second for a new fighter aircraft, the text introduces, illustrates and explains the important facets of modern engine design. Individual sections cover aircraft requirements and aerodynamics, principles of gas turbines and jet engines, elementary compressible fluid mechanics, bypass ratio selection, scaling and dimensional analysis, turbine and...
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14. |  Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications By: Ronald D. Flack Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 25-APR-2005 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications
This introductory 2005 text on air-breathing jet propulsion focuses on the basic operating principles of jet engines and gas turbines. Previous coursework in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics is elucidated and applied to help the student understand and predict the characteristics of engine components and various types of engines and power gas turbines. Numerous examples help the reader appreciate the methods and differing, representative physical parameters. A capstone chapter integrates the text material into a portion of the book devoted to system matching and analysis so that...
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15. |  By: Joseph Katz; Allen Plotkin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 05-FEB-2001 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Low-Speed Aerodynamics
Low-speed aerodynamics is important in the design and operation of aircraft flying at low Mach number, and ground and marine vehicles. This 2001 book offers a modern treatment of the subject, both the theory of inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational aerodynamics and the computational techniques now available to solve complex problems. A unique feature of the text is that the computational approach (from a single vortex element to a three-dimensional panel formulation) is interwoven throughout. Thus, the reader can learn about classical methods of the past, while also learning how to...
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16. |  Introduction to Aircraft Design By: John P. Fielding Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 14-OCT-1999 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Aircraft Design
This book provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of civil and military aircraft design. Giving a largely descriptive overview of all aspects of the design process, this well-illustrated account provides an insight into the requirements of each specialist in an aircraft design team. After discussing the need for new designs, the text assesses the merits of different aircraft shapes from micro-lights and helicopters to super-jumbos and V/STOL aircraft. Following chapters explore structures, airframe systems, avionics and weapons systems. Later chapters examine the costs...
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17. |  A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors By: Daniel Fleisch Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 22-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors
Vectors and tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available, with applications ranging from mechanics and electromagnetics to general relativity. Understanding the nature and application of vectors and tensors is critically important to students of physics and engineering. Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations, Fleisch explains vectors and tensors in plain language. Written for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors and vector calculus before...
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18. |  Centrifugal and Axial Compressor Control By: Gregory K. McMillan Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 15-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Centrifugal and Axial Compressor Control Control engineers, mechanical engineers and mechanical technicians will learn how to select the proper control systems for axial and centrifugal compressors for proper throughput and surge control, with a particular emphasis on surge control. Readers will learn to understand the importance of transmitter speed, digital controller sample time, and control valve stroking time in helping to prevent surge. Engineers and technicians will find this book to be a highly valuable guide on compressor control schemes and the importance of mitigating costly and sometimes catastrophic surge problems. It...
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19. |  By: Ira M. Cohen; Pijush K. Kundu Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 21-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fluid Mechanics, 4th Edition
Fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids behave and interact under various forces and in various applied situations—whether in the liquid or gaseous state or both—is introduced and comprehensively covered in this widely adopted text. Fully revised and updated with the addition of a new chapter on biofluid mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Fourth Edition is suitable for both a first or second course in fluid mechanics at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The leading advanced general text on fluid mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, 4e guides students from the fundamentals to the...
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20. |  By: Joe Cecil Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 30-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Virtual Engineering This book offers a quick overview of the most cutting-edge uses of the computer in engineering design, 'virtual testing,' and 'virtual applications.' Readers will find clearly illustrated, well-documented case examples that help to bring the abstractions of computer simulation to meaningful practical reality. Contributing authors from a wide variety of engineering disciplines-from both academia and industry-bring a full perspective to what is new in the use of computer-based engineering design. Readers will find: --' New case studies on Virtual Prototyping, Virtual Reality training systems...
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