Marine Engineers Handbook

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Preface

This handbook is compiled especially for the area of design engineers and technical students. Operating engineers, it is hoped, will find it useful also for presentations of design and construction details, though no attempt has be made to include instructions covering the adjustment and maintenance of marine propulsion machinery.

This book is designed by the publishers to be a follow to "Marine Engineers Handbook", edited by the late Commander Frank W. Sterling and was available until recently. In attempting to a revision to provide materials representative of current practice, it was found that, because of virtually complete obsolescence, an entirely new book instead of a revisions was in order. Commander Sterling's book was a guide of a generation of marine engineers; it is hoped that this volume as a successor may be equally well received.

This book retains practically as originally presented the section on Reciprocating Steam Engines but all other sections on special marine engineering topics are completely new. Much material that is of pertinent value to the marine engineer has been reprinted from the forth edition of the "Mechanical Engineers Handbook" with the kind permission and full cooperation of Professor Lionel S. Marks.

There is the sincere belief of the editor that the book is up to date and that it incorporate all the sound and proved marine engineering practice that has been developed rapidly within the past several years. The editor has been fortunate is having the aid as contributors of many men who have been closely associated with important current developments in the field of engineering and takes this opportunity of thanking them for their prompt and painstaking work.

In so extensive a compilation there will undoubtedly be inadvertent mistakes admissions. The editor will be thankful is comments and constructive suggestions are communicated to him through the publishers.

TOC

1, Mathematical Tables 2
1, Weights and MEasures VO
2, Mathematics SS
3, Mechanics of Rigid Bodies 190
3. Stresses in Framed Structures 220
3. Friction 232
3. Hydraulics 244
3. Dimensional Analysis 282
3. Theory of Models, 287
4. Thermal Properties ok Bodies and Thermodynamics 292
4, Transmission op Ef.at S84
5. Mechanical Properties of Materials 414
5. Mechanics or Materials 437
5. Vibration Proolems 505
6. Materials of Engineering 529
7. Machine Elements. 750
7, Pipe and Pipe Fittings 000
S. Power Generation 977
8. Boilers 977
8. Steam Engines 1022, 1053
8. Steam Turbines IISO
8. Internal Combustion Engines 1319
9. Hulls 1381
9. Propellers 1408
9. Reduction Gears 1442
9. Deck Machinery 1450
9. Electric Drives’e 1479
10. Heating and Ventilation 1510
11, Pumps and Compressors 1598
11. Fans 1668
12. Electrical Engineering 1686
13. Measuring Instruments1783
IS. Refrigeration. . . . : 1851
14. Ships’ Trials 1913
Index 1953