Mechanics of Accuracy in
Engineering Design of Machines
and Robots Volume I: Nominal
Functioning and Geometric
Accuracy
VLADIMIR T. PORTMAN
ASME Press Books, 2 Park Ave., New York, NY 10016. 2018.
Accuracy is one of the fundamental characteristics and one of the most important measures of the quality of machines and robots. It significantly defines their structure and applications and, in turn, depends on their structure and applications. Accuracy provision,
maintenance, and enhancement are permanently hot problems
in modern manufacturing and manufacturing science. This
first volume of Portman’s book includes the introduction and
the first 12 chapters, which cover such topics as general definitions, nominal machine functioning models, and geometrical
accuracy problems. Portman intended the book for machine
and robot designers and researchers and university students,
but it may be also useful for instructors in the mechanical engineering field for teaching processes.
490 PAGES. $159; $127, ASME MEMBER. ISBN-13: 978-0-7918-6161-5
BUILDING HABITATS ON THE MOON: ENGINEER-
ING APPROACHES TO LUNAR SETTLEMENTS
Haym Benaroya
Springer Nature, One New York Plaza,
Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. 2018.
The settlement of extraterrestrial worlds has moved from
a distant pipedream of science fiction aficionados to
the near term goal of such powerful people as Elon Musk. Rutgers mechanical
engineering professor Haym Benaroya has tried to underlay those lofty plans with
some structural engineering rigor. Benaroya characterizes the lunar environ-
ment—airless, blasted by solar radiation on the day side and unimaginably
cold during the two-week long night—then looks at habitat designs that can
withstand it. The designs consider not only bare physical parameters such as
maintaining air pressure but also the psychological aspects of long-term living
in such a pitiless place.
314 PAGES. $39.99. ISBN: 978-3-3196-8242-6
INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING
FLUID MECHANICS
Marcel Escudier
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave 8,
New York, NY 10016. 2018.
The world is permeated with fluids—from the air we
breathe and the blood pumping through our veins to
the convection roiling beneath the surface of the Sun—which makes fluid
mechanics a wide-ranging field of study. Marcel Escudier, a professor emeritus
at the University of Liverpool, has written an introductory textbook that
gets at that scope. The introduction contains illustrations of a race car in
a wind tunnel and the flow through a centrifugal pump. The book is written
with beginners in mind, but Escudier doesn’t shy away from introducing the
essential mathematical tools students need to explore more deeply in later
courses.
608 PAGES. $95. ISBN: 978-0-1987-1987-8
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