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Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
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by: Neil Sclater, Nicholas Chironis
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A modern motion control system typically consists of a motion controller, a motor drive or amplifier, an electric motor, and feedback sensors.
Book Description
2,501 mechanisms and mechanical devices - at your fingertips! A one-of-a-kind pictorial directory, Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Third Edition, gives you drawings and descriptions of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices. A carefully compiled index lets you quickly find a specific component which may very well be the exact problem-solving answer you've been seeking. You can count on this guide to help you: * Recycle successful mechanical inventions into new products, with or without modifications * Design basic mechanisms from scratch with a chapter of tutorial text and formulas * Save time researching patents * Get a refresher on the design and function of bearings, belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears, genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and switches Stay on top of present and future trends in mechanical engineering and machine design, with up-to-date treatments of motion control systems; 2D and 3D CAD software; industrial robots and rapid prototyping (RP) systems; recent research and spinoffs of MEMS technology
From the Back Cover
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
Whatever mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic device, product, or system you are designing or improvingmotion-control components, appliances, machine tools, or spacecraftyou 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
InsidePreview 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
About the Author
Neil Sclater switched his career from engineering in the military/aerospace industry to writing and editing in the field of electromechanical and electronic technology. After years as a staff editor for engineering magazines, he set up his own consulting firm in technical communications. While serving a varied list of industrial clients over a 25-year period, he contributed hundreds of articles to various engineering publications. Mr. Sclater has degrees from Brown University and Northeastern University. He is the author or co-author of six books on engineering subjects; five of these have been published by McGraw-Hill. The late Nicholas P. Chironis was a consulting engineer and mechanical design editor for Product Engineering magazine and an editor for other McGraw-Hill technical magazines. Early in his career he was a mechanical engineer for IBM, Merganthaler Linotype, and other companies, as well as a product design instructor at the Cooper Union School of Engineering. Mr. Chironis earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic University, New York.
Reviews:
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.
Detailed graphical and pictorial images of many different mechanisms grouped in catagories for easy searching. When your stuck on a mechanical design, this book can be a great help.
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!