ENGINEERS’ DATA BOOK A completely revised and expanded fourth edition of this best-selling pocket guide. Engineers’ Data Book provides a concise and useful source of up-to-date essential information for the student or practising engineer. Updated, expanded edition Easy to use Handy reference guide Core technical data Clifford Matthews is an experienced engineer with worldwide knowledge of mechanical engineering.

This greatly expanded second edition of this popular and handy reference book includes over 100 new pages, including extensive coverage of Section VIII of the ASME Pressure Vessel Code. Divided into 22 sections, this pocket-sized volume is an exhaustive "quick reference" of up-to-date engineering data and rules. It includes: essential mathematics; units; engineering design processes and principles; basic mechanical design; motion; mechanics of materials; material failure; thermodynamics; fluid mechanics; fluid equipment; vessel codes and standards; materials; machine elements; design and production tools; project engineering; computer-aided engineering; welding; non-destructive examination; corrosion; surface protection; metallurgical terms; and engineering associations and organizations.

This practical handbook features an overview of the importance of physical properties and thermodynamics; and the use of thermo-dynamics to predict the extent of reaction in proposed new chem-ical combinations. The use of special types of data and pre-diction methods to develop flowsheets for probing projects; and sources of critically evaluated data, dividing the published works into three categories depending on quality are given. Methods of doing one's own critical evaluation of literature, a list of known North American contract experimentalists with the types of data mea-sured by each, methods for measuring equilibrium data, and ther-modynamic concepts to carry out process opti-mization are also featured.

This book provides a concise and useful source of up-to-date essential information for the student or practising engineer.