Product Description: A completely revised and expanded third 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...read more

Product Description: The API Individual Certification Programs (ICPs) are well established worldwide in the oil, gas, and petroleum industries. This Quick Guide is unique in providing simple, accessible and well-structured guidance for anyone studying the API 570 Certified Pipework Inspector syllabus by: Summarizing and helping them through the syllabus; and providing multiple example questions and worked answers Technical standards covered are referenced from the API ICP body of knowledge for the examination, i...read more

Product Description: Save on Packages of 10 Copies! Use Order Number 80229S. 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...read more

Product Description: This indispensable book systematically guides you through Pressure Relief Valves and how they work.  It shows how protective devices perform an important function in preventing the accumulation of overpressure that can result in failure and the uncontrolled release of stored energy...read more

Gives a coverage of pressure equipment and other mechanical plant such as cranes and rotating equipment. This book puts a good deal of emphasis on the 'compliance' aspects and the 'duty of care' requirements placed on plant owners, operators, and inspectors.

Intended for use as an introductory guide to rotating equipment, this book incorporates both technical and administrative aspects of rotating equipment manufacture and use. It introduces the basic principles of balancing, vibration, noise and inspection and testing of a wide range of equipment.

Product Description: legislative data. This book fulfills a key role in presenting up-to-date information on pressure equipment in a practical and easy-to-use-format. It will be aninvaluable source of reference for engineers, technicians, students, pressure equipment designers, manufacturers, and end-users with activities in the pressure equipment business...read more

Product Description: This is an essential handy guide containing useful up to date information regularly needed by the student or practising engineer.Covering all aspects of aircraft, both fixed wing and rotary craft, this pocket book provides quick access to useful aeronautical engineering data and sources of information for further in-depth information...read more

Product Description: This book addresses the main issues of International Joint Venture (IJV) management in a practical and straightforward way with the understanding that more and more business people are faced with the task of managing this complicated organizational form...read more

Product Description: Every engineer or scientist has grappled with this problem of how to present technical information, whether in a report, a paper, an instruction manual, a design brief, project tender, or in a product presentation. Clifford Matthews gives practical help by showing the wide variety of different methods of presentation and guiding the reader into making the right choices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book fifteen distinguished scientists discuss the effects of life--past and present--on planet Earth. Unlike other earth science and biology books, Environmental Evolution describes the impact of life on the Earth's rocky surfaces presenting an integrated view of how our planet evolved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new 2011 edition of the IMechE Engineers' Databook is heavily updated and replaces the previous editions of this best-selling pocket guide (1998, 2000, 2004), providing a concise and useful source of up-to-date essential information for the student or practising engineer...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and staff who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of Japanese occupation when there was only the shell of a campus left standing on Pokfulam Road...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies.Case Studies in Engineering Design provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible case studies which are representative of situations engineers face in professional life, and which incorporate a range of engineering disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Practical Guide to Engineering Failure Investigation has been written with the specific purpose of helping those involved in serious engineering failures. When mechanical plant fails, the technical, legal and contractual issues become very involved and complicated, and deciding causation can be difficult and prolonged...read more