Machine Elements: Life and Design

The modern machine deserves to be considered as a living thing. Adopting this unique perspective, Machine Elements: Life and Design presents a detailed description of the functioning of machine elements and their changing conditions, giving the novice engineer a basic idea about the life of a machine. This book seeks to form a sympathetic attitude toward the machine as well as to ensure its wellbeing by more careful and proper design. The first section is devoted to microscopic deformations and displacements in permanent connections and within the bodies of stressed parts; the second section discusses elements and units of machines; and the third section addresses strength calculations and the life prediction of machine parts.