The book cosists of two parts. The first part deals with the basics of Machine design like load determination, testing for hardness, plane stresses and strains etc. and second part contains the applications to various machine components like shafts, bearings, gears cylinders etc.
The book contains real life case studies like designing a winch lift, rotary air compressor which helps the student to fully appreciate the significance of the subject in real life. Anyone with basic knowledge...

Its a superb book for any one who wants to learn machine design conceptually and with reference to practical design examples in real life.
It has a lot of projects and it teaches how to solve real design problems. It gives an integrated approach of theory and practical problems and their detail analysis. it covers the entire discipline of machine design while giving thorough understanding of the basics..
Highly Recommended.

very difficult to understand

Just go for it.

Excellent

Nice

I liked the review chapter on Strength of Materials....really on depth and easy to understand if u done basic course on SM.
The unique chapters are 5 and 6 discuss static and fatigue failure theories with good logics and explanation.
Coming to the design of machine elements....the chapter on fasteners (ch 14) is very good....helical spring design is not discussed in springs, coupling design process is not discussed, and also welded and recovered joint design is not included... which I feel mi...

Nice book

Best practical reference book

The quality of the book has been reduced. The pages inside resemble as the ones from xerox