Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design

There are many general Engineering Handbooks; Marks' is the best. This is slightly different. I've never found any other book that quite fills the niche Shigley did in the various editions of his work which led to this. it covers most of the technical material you need to actually do good mechanical engineering design. Gears, mechanism, strength of design, etc. There are better books on each individual subject, but no others I've seen that bring it all together into useful processes.This bulks out Shigley's earlier work with new and in some cases more detailed material.Worthy of a place on any Designer's desk.

Excellent text book for young engineers, well presented and wide coverage of the topic. Book arrived in good condition and on the timescale expected.

Good Book. Some pages slightly damaged

It's exactly what it says on the tin. . . errr.... cover! This book was my go to for Uni mechanics.

Shigley's is for engineering students and engineers alike. Essential reading.

Helped alot

Just what I needed for Statics.

I thought it was time to update my first edition SI units Shigley so I bought this, the 10th edition. It seems to have some worthwhile upgrades and technology updates. Disappointing though having only read so far to page 19 and already found two mistakes, one on page 18 and one on page 19, both in equations, one leading to a wrong answer and the other by chance not. Turning to the answers to selected problems in Appendix B I find that most of them are in Imperial units!! I haven't checked yet whether the answers are correct if converted but this seems a bizarre editorial oversight. Hopefully this will be a long term reference like my first edition but the errors spotted so far certainly raise questions so far as using it in professional work.Update: editing into SI units and Euro-relevance actually seems to have taken a step backwards. On p.13 of the 10th ed. we are asked to consider an AISI 1020 bar of hot-rolled steel 53mm square as a non-standard size. Fair enough, but the first edition uses the example of a 53mm square of spec BS 080M50 which would have been current at the time. Rather than an AISI code they could have used a Eurocode steel. Also, checking through the selected answers section in my 1st ed. they are all in SI units. In problem 1-7 we are presented with double units "0.0125mm in".Further update: a useful chapter on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) has been added. The first example, fig 20-3, is in inches (probably) though it doesn't really matter. The standard used is ASME Y14.5 which is close to the ISO standard, which would be more relevant to non-US readers, but I think there are differences. Paul Green's book would be a better bet for ISO standard reference.