Books by Keith L. (Consulting Engineer Richards

Written for engineers and apprentice draftsmen contemplating moving towards engineering technology, this book provides a number of worked examples covering basic beam and shaft design together with combined torsion and bending. Chapters on keys and spline strength calculations, methods of attachments, flat plates energy formulae, and gearing are included. There is also a chapter introducing a method of material selection which detailing how to set up a database covering materials for the student¿s personal use. The final chapter includes a variety of conversion and general tables.

This handbook covers basic subjects that mechanical engineers will meet in their careers as well as the analysis of important machine elements, including shafts, lugs, and shear pins together with mechanical fasteners such as bolts. Emphasizing the use of hand calculations rather than dedicated software enables engineers and engineering students to understand the reasoning behind a particular approach, so that a solution can be readily obtained in the absence of a computer. The chapters cover the general problems that engineers encounter during their work¿similar to the problems the writer had to solve in his early career¿and provide detailed solutions to such problems.