- Hardcover: 500 pages
- Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education; 3rd Revised edition edition (1 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071361693
- ISBN-13: 978-0071361699
- Product Dimensions: 28.5 x 22.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 201,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a one-stop guide for ready-to-use mechanical component designs. It describes and illustrates 2501 mechanisms and mechanical devices, and shows how these components combine successfully with electrical hydraulic, pneumatic, optical, thermal, or photoelectric devices.
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The only reference of its kind, this sourcebook contains drawings and descriptions of more than 2000 different mechanisms and mechanical devices that have proven themselves in modern products, machines, and systems. This encyclopedic guide offers:
-An extensive pictorial directory of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices that have applications in new designs and modifications
-Illustrated technical articles summarizing important, expanding fields in mechanical, electromechanical, and mechatronic design and engineering
-A source of historical information about mechanical components and devices that have participated in design solutions in the past and can be recycled for new designs, or will offer ideas that will inspire original concepts
-An extensive pictorial directory of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices that have applications in new designs and modifications
-Illustrated technical articles summarizing important, expanding fields in mechanical, electromechanical, and mechatronic design and engineering
-A source of historical information about mechanical components and devices that have participated in design solutions in the past and can be recycled for new designs, or will offer ideas that will inspire original concepts
Whatever mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic device, product, or system you are designing or improving'motion-control components, appliances, machine tools, or spacecraft'you will find relevant illustrations and text in this book. Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook is a must addition to your personal technical library.
-Provides an introduction to or refresher on the design and function of classical mechanical elements including bearings, belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears, genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and switches
-Key equations and charts for designing mechanisms
-Features a complete index, making it easy to find references to specific components, devices, mechanisms, and systems
Inside'Preview New Directions in Machine Design
Encyclopedic coverage unmatched by any other reference
-Actuators
-Bearings
-Belts
-Brakes
-Cams
-Chains
-Clamps
-Clutches
-Controllers
-Couplings
-Cranks
-Drivers
-Encoders
-Feeders
-Gears
-Genevas
-Joints
-Latches
-Linkages
-Magnets
-Manipulators
-Motors
-Pumps
-Robots
-Screws
-Sensors
-Solenoids
-Springs
-Switches
-Transmissions
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A book on mechanisms to match Chironis' classic work on springs ought to be a "must have" and this is.
This comprehensively covers virtually all mechanisms in a most helpful style.
As in "Spring Design and Application", he gives you examples by the truckload, and enough theory that you can apply things to your own applications.
This is also the only textbook I've ever seen to include pyromechanical devices- those which use a small explosive or propellant charge as a power source. These are not as widely known as they should be.
For the Engineer's book shelf, this is probably even better than the "Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors" series.
There may be useful stuff that isn't here, but you can probably solve your problem in these pages anyway.
This comprehensively covers virtually all mechanisms in a most helpful style.
As in "Spring Design and Application", he gives you examples by the truckload, and enough theory that you can apply things to your own applications.
This is also the only textbook I've ever seen to include pyromechanical devices- those which use a small explosive or propellant charge as a power source. These are not as widely known as they should be.
For the Engineer's book shelf, this is probably even better than the "Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors" series.
There may be useful stuff that isn't here, but you can probably solve your problem in these pages anyway.
Format:Hardcover
I was really looking forward to receiving this book. I do a lot of mechanical designing in my job and enjoy reading about and discovering how mechanisms work. It is no mean challenge to attempt to write something like this so I am reluctant to give negative feedback. Unfortunately I have to say some of the drawings contained within are rather poor and leave quite a bit to be desired. I think in an attempt to cover a huge subject area the surface has merely been skimmed in to many places and the overall result no better than average at best...
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Sclater's v. Parmley's books
25 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
I bought the largely similar books on mechanical components by Sclater and Parmley. Both have drawings of similar quality, to the point of having identical drawings in a number of cases (presumably because both authors used the same third-party source for the particular topic). A very few drawings were disappointing, but most were very good indeed -- and even the disappointing drawings probably would be fine for most engineers (I am not one).
There are differences. The Parmley book presents more examples of certain devices (for example, more types of linkages). But that is not true for all devices, and I'm not sure it matters in the end since both books offer quite a variety of most. For me, not being an engineer but being a fairly quick study if I'm presented with something to study, the Sclater book was preferable because it included, in most cases, more detailed introductory essays about the variouse sections: gears, screws, linkages, solenoids, etc. In some cases, though rarely, Parmley's explanations were skimpy.
I'm trying here to draw some helpful distinctions, and hope I have, but I'll close by saying that I think both are great. If I had to choose, Sclater's would win, but if you can do without the more detailed explanations and would prefer marginally more devices presented, Parmley's may suit you better.
There are differences. The Parmley book presents more examples of certain devices (for example, more types of linkages). But that is not true for all devices, and I'm not sure it matters in the end since both books offer quite a variety of most. For me, not being an engineer but being a fairly quick study if I'm presented with something to study, the Sclater book was preferable because it included, in most cases, more detailed introductory essays about the variouse sections: gears, screws, linkages, solenoids, etc. In some cases, though rarely, Parmley's explanations were skimpy.
I'm trying here to draw some helpful distinctions, and hope I have, but I'll close by saying that I think both are great. If I had to choose, Sclater's would win, but if you can do without the more detailed explanations and would prefer marginally more devices presented, Parmley's may suit you better.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
*Excellent* reference source book for brainstorming
22 April 1998
Format:Hardcover
I used this book frequently in an undergraduate mechanical engineering design curriculum. Many of the images are self explanitory, and often provide a solution to a mechanism problem at hand. A must for every mechanical design engineer!
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Informative and fun
16 Nov 2002
Format:Hardcover
this book is for the person who likes to fool around in the workshop inventing things. I like to do that as often as I can and this book has really boosted my productivity in the shop. Before I start on a new project I like to scan the book again and see if I can use any of the ideas. I never fail to find something I can use. The drawings are a big help in understanding the devices. There is no other book like this. It is a gathering of all the neat gadgets all in one book.
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