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Resources - Mechanical Engineering
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Mastering AutoCAD (2025)
What this Book will help me do: * Advanced knowledge of AutoCAD, including workflows and hidden features. * Competency in customizing AutoCAD workspaces and user interfaces. * In-depth understanding of AutoCAD commands and creating dynamic blocks. * Skills to integrate AutoCAD Web for collaborative workflows. * Confidence in preparing for and achieving Autodesk AutoCAD certification.
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Learn SOLIDWORKS 2025 - Third Edition (2025)
What this book will help me do: * Understand the SOLIDWORKS interface and its tools for efficient 3D modeling. * Create precise 2D sketches and refine them into complex 3D models. *Develop strong skills in assembling both fixed and movable 3D structures. * Master engineering drawing techniques for professional-grade outputs. *Prepare effectively for the CSWA and CSWP certification exams.
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Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Mechanical Engineering (2023)
This text covers the latest intelligent technologies and algorithms related to the state-of-the-art methodologies of monitoring and mitigation of mechanical engineering. It covers important topics including computational fluid dynamics for advanced thermal systems, optimizing performance parameters by Fuzzy logic, design of experiments, numerical simulation, and optimizing flow network by artificial intelligence. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields including industrial, manufacturing, computer, mechanical, and materials science. The book- Introduces novel soft computing techniques needed to address sustainable solutions for the issues related to materials and manufacturing process. Provides perspectives for the design, development, and commissioning of intelligent applications. Discusses the latest intelligent technologies and algorithms related to the state-of-the-art methodologies of monitoring and mitigation of sustainable engineering. Explores future generation sustainable and intelligent monitoring techniques beneficial for mechanical engineering. Covers implementation of soft computing in the various areas of engineering applications.   This book introduces soft computing techniques in addressing sustainable solutions for the issues related to materials and manufacturing process. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields including industrial, manufacturing, thermal, fluid, and materials science.
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Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Handbook (2022)
Covers basic concepts in mechanical engineering and mechatronics, including stress and strain, mechanics of solids, internal combustion engines, refrigeration, fluid mechanics, control systems, actuation, robotics, electro-mechanical systems, hydraulics, and more.
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Machinery's Handbook Guide: A Guide to Tables, Formulas, & More in the 31st. Edition (2020)
Since the first edition published more than 100 years ago, Machinery’s Handbook has been acknowledged as an exceptionally authoritative and comprehensive, yet highly practical, and easy-to-use tool, and the new 31st edition has grown to nearly 3,000 pages. The Guide to the Use of Tables and Formulas in the Machinery’s Handbook, 31st Edition, is designed to maximize the enormous practical value of the latest, greatest edition of this invaluable engineering resource, offering useful information on how to make full use of the Machinery’s Handbook in solving problems on the job. Features Revised to reflect numerous changes made in the new 31st edition, with specific cross references to quickly locate information in the far larger book, the Guide enables users to become familiar with the Handbook’s vast range of vital content. Offering more than 150 worked-out examples and nearly 500 review questions (with answers) specially selected for engineers, apprentices, and students, the Guide addresses problems commonly encountered in manufacturing and metalworking. By following practical techniques explained in the Guide and cross-referenced to the Handbook, readers will enhance their ability to reach specific information and solutions more quickly and easily.
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Machinery's Handbook Pocket Companion: Quick Access to Basic Data & More from the 31st. Edition (2020)
Machinery’s Handbook, Pocket Companion, is a concise yet authoritative, highly useful reference that draws its content from the Machinery’s Handbook. Designed as a time saver, the Pocket Companion is an ideal quick resource for anyone in manufacturing, metalworking, and related fields for whom convenient access to just the most basic data is essential. The Pocket Companion draws on the wealth of tables, charts, and text in the Machinery’s Handbook, 31st Edition. Much of the information has been reorganized, distilled, or simplified to increase the usefulness of this book, while keeping it compact. The Pocket Companion is not intended to replace the new Machinery’s Handbook, 31st Edition. Instead, it serves as a handy and more portable complement to the Handbook’s vast collection of text, data, and standards. Features Serves as a handy and portable complement to the vastly larger compilation of data, standards, and text, in the Machinery’s Handbook. Revised to reflect numerous changes made in the new 31st edition, this second edition includes updated standards, key revisions, and added tables. The visual design and carefully organized presentation of fundamental and reliable data facilitates frequent and easy use, helping to save time and labor. Practitioners and students will find the Pocket Companion to be a convenient ready-reference to keep nearby while working on engineering designs, on the shop or factory floor, or learning fundamentals in school and studies.
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Machinery's Handbook, 30th Edition, Pocket Companion. (2016)
Extremely concise yet authoritative, this invaluable tool draws on the wealth of tables, charts, and text in the Machinery's Handbook, 30th Edition. Much of the subject matter is reorganized, distilled, or simplified to enhance this book's usability and to keep its bulk down.
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Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Volume 1. (2015)
Full coverage of materials and mechanical design in engineering Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Fourth Edition provides a quick guide to specialized areas you may encounter in your work, giving you access to the basics of each and pointing you toward trusted resources for further reading, if needed.
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Basic Engineering Mathematics (2014)
Introductory mathematics written specifically for students new to engineering Now in its sixth edition, Basic Engineering Mathematics is an established textbook that has helped thousands of students to succeed in their exams.
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A Guide to Writing as an Engineer (2014)
A Guide to Writing as an Engineer deals with a variety of topics ranging from important writing concepts that apply to professional engineers, to content, organization, format and style of various kinds of engineering writing. The book also covers oral presentations, research techniques, ethics, and proper citation methods.
Digital Resources
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EduTV [Informit] > NMT
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A collection of free to air videos across a number of teaching areas
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Films on Demand > NMT
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A collection of online videos covering multiple subjects including business, arts, architecture, automotive, health, languages and science.
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Safetyhub WHS Videos > NMT
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A large collection of workplace health and safety videos in a range of areas and occupations.
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Safe Work Australia
Safe Work Australia leads the development of national policy to improve work health and safety and workers’ compensation arrangements across Australia
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Schaum's outlines strength of materials, 6th edition (2014)
This all-in-one-package includes more than 600 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. ... Plus, you will have access to 22 detailed videos featuring instructors who explain the most commonly tested problems—it's just like having your own virtual tutor!
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Manufacturing engineering and technology (2014)
This text presents a mostly qualitative description of the science, technology, and practice of manufacturing. This includes detailed descriptions of manufacturing processes and the manufacturing enterprise that will help introduce students to important concepts
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