APPLIED INDUSTRIAL MECHANICS

A shaft sized correctly on paper and a shaft that fails on the plant floor eighteen months later are, more often than not, the same shaft, examined from two different chairs, using two bodies of knowledge that rarely talk to each other.
Most engineers and technicians learn machine design and industrial maintenance as separate subjects. A design text explains how to size a shaft, select a bearing, or specify a gear ratio, then stops once the component leaves the drawing board. A maintenance reference picks up only after that same component is installed and starts wearing or failing, often without tracing the failure back to the design decision that set it in motion.
This book closes that gap with one continuous reference, moving from mechanics fundamentals through the individual machine-element families that make up industrial equipment, to the vibration, alignment, and reliability practices that determine how long a correctly designed machine actually lasts in service. Every chapter carries a worked example's units through every step, in SI units with US customary equivalents alongside, and every practice problem includes a checkable, boxed answer.
Inside, readers will practice how to:

• Construct free-body diagrams and apply stress, strain, and failure-theory calculations to real machine components, with every step shown in full.
• Size and select shafts, keys, couplings, rolling-element and hydrodynamic bearings, gear sets, and belt, chain, and wire-rope drives for a specified load and service life.
• Work through hydraulic and pneumatic circuit fundamentals as they apply to industrial actuation and power transmission, and size clutches and brakes for real transmission-control tasks.
• Read vibration spectra, recognize common fault patterns such as imbalance, misalignment, and looseness, and align rotating machinery.
• Apply reliability metrics, including mean time between failures, mean time to repair, and Weibull analysis, to plan realistic maintenance intervals.
• Use condition-monitoring techniques, including oil analysis, thermography, ultrasonic inspection, and motor current signature analysis, within a structured predictive maintenance program.
• Apply failure mode and effects analysis and root cause analysis methods to diagnose recurring equipment problems, supported throughout by a glossary, symbol list, and appendices covering unit conversions, material properties, and standards references.