A pocket guide to thousands of formulas for everyday use. It includes formulas for measuring fatigue, load bearing, gear design, and simple mechanics.

Designed with an on-the-go format, this indispensable guide puts thousands of formulas in the palm of your hand. It contains a broad range of formulas - everything from HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) to stress and vibration equations - all for measuring fatigue, load bearing, gear design, and simple mechanisms. It is an easy-to-use guide for all types of mechanics and engineers.

• Part Power generation
• modern power
• plant cycles and equipment
• condensing systems and auxiliaries
• combustion
• steam
• generating equipment and auxiliaries
• feedwater heating methods
• internal
• combustion engines
• Part Plant and facilities engineering
• pumps and pumping systems
• piping and fluid flow
• air and gas compressors and vacuum systems
• materials handling
• heat transfer and heat exchangers
• refrigeration
• Part Environmental control
• wastewater treatment and control
• community water supply and stormwater system design
• building plumbing and drainage system design
• heating
• ventilation and air conditioning
• solar energy
• energy conservation
• Part Design engineering
• shafts, flywheels and pulleys
• gear design and application
• couplings, clutches and speed controls
• bearing design and selection
• spring selection and analysis
• mechanical brake choice and use
• hydraulic and pneumatic systems design
• metalworking and nonmetallic materials processing

The contents of this portable resource are divided into ten sections and include topics on machine members, shafts, reliability, metalworking, HVAC, thermodynamics, power plants, and fluids. Hicks includes diagrams and associated formulas on moments of ineria, torsion, beam formulas along with other diagrams ... Choice 20031001