"90th anniversary edition."--Cover.

Mathematical tables and measuring units -- Mathematical tables -- Measuring units -- Mathematics -- Computers -- Mechanics of solids and fluids -- Mechanics of solids -- Friction -- Mechanics of fluids -- Vibration -- Heat -- Thermodynamics -- Thermodynamic properties of substances -- Radiant heat transfer -- Transmission of heat by conduction and convection -- Strength of materials -- Mechanical properties of materials -- Mechanics of materials -- Pipeline flexure stresses -- Nondestructive testing -- Experimental stress and strain analysis -- Mechanics of composite materials -- Materials of engineering -- General properties of materials -- Iron and stel -- Iron and steel castings -- Nonferrous metals and alloys; metallic specialties -- Corrosion -- Paints and protective coatings -- Wood -- nonmetallic materials -- Cement, mortar, and concrete -- Water -- Lubricants and lubrication -- Plastics -- Fiber composite materials -- Fuels and furnaces -- Fuels -- Carbonization of coal and gas making -- Combustion furnaces -- Municipal waste combustion -- Electric furnaces and ovens -- Machine elements -- Mechanism -- Machine elements -- Gearing -- Fluid-film bearings -- Bearings with rolling contact -- Packings, gaskets, and seals -- Pipe, pipe fittings, and valves -- Power generation -- Sources of energy -- Steam boilers -- Steam engines -- Steam turbines -- Power-plant heat exchangers -- Internal-combustion engines -- Gas turbines -- Nuclear power -- Hydraulic turbines -- materials handling -- Materials holding, feeding, and metering -- Lifting, hoisting, and elevating -- Dragging, pulling, and pushing -- Loading, carrying, and excavating -- Conveyor moving and handling -- Automatic guided vehicles and robots -- Material storage and warehousing -- Transportation -- Automotive engineering -- Railway engineering -- Marine engineering -- Aeronautics -- Jet propulsion and aircraft propellers -- Astronautics -- Pipeline transmission -- Containerization -- Building construction and equipment -- Industrial plants -- Structural design of buildings -- Reinforced concrete design and construction -- Air conditioning, heating, and ventilating -- Illumination -- Sound, noise, and ultrasonics -- Manufacturing processes -- Foundry practice and equipment -- Plastic working of metals -- Welding and cutting -- Machineing processes and machine tools -- Surface texture designation, production, and quality control -- Woodcutting tools and machines -- Precision cleaning -- Fans, pumps, compressors -- Displacement pumps -- Centrifugal pumps -- Compressors -- High-vacuum pumps -- Fans -- Electrical and electronics engineering -- Electrical engineering -- Electronics -- Instruments and controls -- Instruments -- Automatic controls -- Surveying -- Industrial engineering -- Operations management -- Cost accounting -- Engineering statistics and quality control -- methods engineering -- Cost of electric power -- Human factors and ergonomics -- Automatic manufacturing -- The regulatory environment -- Environmental control -- Occupational safety and health -- Fire protection -- Patents, trademarks, and copyrights -- Refrigeration, cryogenics, and optics -- Mechanical refrigeration -- Cryogenics -- Optics -- Emerging technologies -- An introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) -- Introduction to nanotechnology -- Ferroelectrics/piezoelectrics and shape memory alloys -- Introduction to the finite-element method -- Computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, and variational design -- Introduction to computational fluid dynamics -- Experimental fluid dynamics -- Introduction to biomechanics -- Human injury tolerance and anthropometric test devices -- Air-inflated fabric structures -- Robotics, mechatronics, and intelligent automation -- Rapid prototyping -- Miscellany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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