Designing Structural Components for Machines

This textbook covers the design of structural components as they occur in machines with a focus on applying statics and mechanics of deformable solids to the solution of engineering design problems.

The text is the culmination of a respected professor's lifetime of studying and teaching in the areas of engineering mechanics, finite element analysis, and structural analysis and design. The book begins with a review of the basics of component design followed by a chapter on using computers for design assistance. This is followed by chapters covering designing for axial tension and compression, designing connections for axial loading, designing pinned trusses, and design for bending, torsion and combined loads. A chapter on designing a floor crane walks students through the design techniques learned in the previous chapters. There is also a chapter with 14 unique design projects. Sample problem sets are included at the end of chapters.

The book includes 95 pages of appendices on specifications and code, section properties, and design assistance tables which provides the database content essential to the design process.

"Three ingredients are needed for a successful design: an analysis procedure, design criteria, and a database. The systematic integration of these three ingredients makes this book unique."
Author Larry Sergerlind

Professor Emeritus
Michigan State University
East Lansing