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Advanced Engineering Design
Lifetime performance and reliability — by Anton van Beek.
Advanced Engineering Design — Lifetime performance and reliability is a self-published engineering textbook on designing for durability: tribology, bearing design, fatigue and reliability, built around worked methods rather than pure theory. 472 pages in full colour, with over 250 illustrations, 300 formulae, 100 case studies and design examples, 50 calculators and 50 photographs of machine element failures.
| Editions | Seven editions, 2004–2019 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Tribos (Anton van Beek) |
| ISBN | 978-90-810406-1-7 |
| Companion toolset | Complete site download incl. Mathcad Client — a free viewer for the Mathcad files behind the calculators |
| Academic use | Cited by 136 works, 2005–2025 |
| Other formats | Hardcopy and book+USB editions exist but are currently out of stock |
The book is the written counterpart to the calculators and encyclopedia on this site. Many of the methods implemented in the calculators are developed in full in its chapters.
About the book
The objective of this book is to provide guidelines for engineers helping them to improve machine lifetime performance and reliability. Many books are written about machine design. Most of these are focused on selection and computation of basic machine elements — calculations that generally relate to the strength and stiffness of machine elements. In practice, few machine problems are caused by these issues, thanks to the attention already paid to strength calculation. Most machine problems occur with the passage of time, from dynamic loading and interacting surfaces in relative motion: friction and wear may take on an unacceptable form, resulting in play, frictional heat or jams, and in rolling contacts surface fatigue is generally the predominant failure mode. It is estimated that approximately 95% of all machine problems are related to fatigue fracture and tribology phenomena — friction and wear — so the science of managing them deserves the necessary attention.
The purpose of this book is to give insight, through case studies and a wide range of illustrations, into how machine performance deteriorates, how machine elements may fail, how to analyze the cause of performance deterioration and failure, and, most importantly, how failures may be prevented and performance improved. Many design tools, design charts and guidelines are discussed. User-friendly calculators of the formulae derived in the book are made available — including calculators for dynamic load capacity, friction, frictional heating and wear of machine elements in relative motion — and the same formulae are also available as Mathcad files, so a designer can adapt or extend a calculation for a specific application.
From the book: real failure cases
Three of the book’s worked failure-analysis cases — the kind of photographic evidence the 50 failure photographs are drawn from.
Contents
- Reliability engineering
- Physics of failure
- Fatigue failure prediction and prevention
- Rolling contact phenomena
- Friction phenomena in mechanical systems
- Wear mechanisms
- Material selection — a systematic approach
- Lubricant selection and lubrication management
- Design of hydrodynamic bearings and sliders
- Performance and selection of sealing systems
- Design of hydrostatic bearings
- Design of aerostatic bearings
- Design of flexure-based mechanisms
- Machine design calculations — reference guide
The full bibliography (PDF) lists all 83 works cited throughout the book.
Get the book
Full e-book — all 472 pages
The full textbook — tribology, bearing design, fatigue and reliability. PDF download.
Chapters 1–8 only — a shorter, cheaper e-book
The first eight chapters as a standalone e-book.