Reference
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.
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