Machinery's Handbook Guide: A Guide to Using Tables, Formulas, & More in the 32nd Edition

by John Milton Amiss, Franklin Day Jones, Henry H. Ryffel, Christopher J. McCauley

Overview

Since publication of the first edition more than 100 years ago, Machinery’s Handbook has been acclaimed as the most popular, bestselling engineering resource of all time. Universally considered the principal reference in the manufacturing, metalworking, and mechanical industries, the Handbook is the ultimate collection of essential information. Now more than 3,000 pages, with thousands of revisions and updates throughout, Machinery’s Handbook, 32nd Edition, is the must-have technical reference.

Machinery’s Handbook Guide: A Guide to Using Tables, Formulas, & More in the 32nd Edition, is designed to help students, professionals, and home shop practitioners take advantage of the enormous breadth of information in the most current edition of the Handbook. Designed to be used alongside the Handbook, helping readers become more familiar with its invaluable content, this complementary text is the perfect problem-solving tool, whether learning key principles for the first time or applying them on the job.

Features

• This new edition of the Guide reflects the updated content of the new Machinery’s Handbook,32nd Edition.
• Specific cross references help quickly locate information in the “parent” book, enabling Guide users to become familiar with navigating and utilizing the Handbook’s vast range of vital content.
• Offers more than 150 worked-out examples and nearly 500 practice exercise and review questions (with answers), specially selected for engineers, apprentices, and students, addressing problems commonly encountered in manufacturing and metalworking.
• Explains practical techniques, enhancing the user’s ability to access needed information and formulate solutions more quickly and easily.

In addition to the printed book, the Guide also is sold as a standalone eBook and as part of the Machinery’s Handbook 32 Digital Edition which includes the complete contents of the 32nd Edition, and more. In the Digital Edition, page references in the Guide are directly linked to other Guide pages and the related Handbook material. For information on these and other digital products, visit the Industrial Press eBookStore site at ebooks.industrialpress.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780831150327
Publisher:	Industrial Press, Inc.
Publication date:	04/15/2024
Edition description:	Thirty-second Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	4.38(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Milton Amiss, 1887-1968.

Franklin Day Jones (1879–1967) was an author in mechanical engineering and toolmaking. He wrote the first edition of Machinery's Handbook (1914, Industrial Press), with engineer Erik Oberg.

Christopher J. McCauley is both an engineer and a prolific author.

Table of Contents

Dimensions and Areas of Circles and Spheres

Chords, Segments, and Hole Circles

Formulas and Their Rearrangement

Spreadsheet Calculations

Calculations Involving Logarithms

Dimensions, Areas, and Volumes of Figures

Geometrical Propositions and Constructions

Trigonometry: Functions of Angles

Solution of Right-Angle Triangles

Solution of Oblique Triangles

Figuring Tapers

Tolerances and Allowances for Machine Parts

Using Standards Data and Information

Standard Screw and Pipe Threads

Problems in Mechanics

Strength of Materials

Design of Shafts and Keys For Power Transmission

Splines

Problems in Designing and Cutting Gears

Speeds, Feeds, and Machining Power

CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Programming

The Metric System

General Review Questions

Answers to Exercises and Review Questions

Units of Measure and Conversion Factors

Index