I believe you are talking about two different concepts in ME: Controls, and Stresses. A few good book for stresses are: Beginning Stress Analysis: "Mechanics of Materials" by Hibbler http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Materials-Edition-Russell-Hibbeler/dp/0132209918 More in-depth knowledge of stress analysis, including fatigue and creep analysis (plus an intro to fracture mechanics): Try "Machine Design" by Robert Norton http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Design-Edition-Robert-Norton/dp/0136123708 I am more of a machine design person and I have not yet found a controls book that makes me like the subject as a whole. So I don't have any good books about controls that I can recommend. Hope this helps
I def agree with the Hibbeler recommendation, but you want the 8th edition here: http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Materials-Edition-Russell-Hibbeler/dp/0136022308/ref=dp_ob_title_bk. Also by Hibbeler, but slightly more technical: http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mechanics-Dynamics-13th-Edition/dp/0132911272/ref=pd_sim_b_2 Happy reading!
Mechanics of Solids by crandall Dahl & Lardner is a very good book for learning basic concepts of Stress ,Strain in solids Since you are a 2nd yeear student, it'll be the best suggestion. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=D2JtIxV-WQMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hi CDW I can't help on the controls but for stress in machine design: Many engineers of my generation studied machine design using a book written by Shigley (and Mitchel or Miche) and I still refer to it regularly or a later edition i picked up used. (be sure to get a recent edition because a fatigue course I took in 2005 taught me that research has shown that 24 years ago the fatigue analysis calculations were a bit wrong) this is now what is available and I am planning on buying it: "Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design" For more indepth study I recomend the asm Handbooks, probably available at the engineering library. Regards W
controls "feedback control of dynamic systems" : Feedback Control of Dynamics Systems (Addison-Wesley series in electrical engineering) Gene F. Franklin, J. David Powell, Abbas Emami-Naeini Bookseller: Blue Cloud Books (Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.) Bookseller Rating: Quantity Available: 1 ISBN: 0201115409 / 0-201-11540-9 also Digital Control of Dynamic Systems Gene F. Franklin / J.David Powell Bookseller: SellTextbooks (Salem, OR, U.S.A.) Bookseller Rating: Quantity Available: 1 ISBN: 9780201028911 these were what I used in school. I think they are to controls what shigley is to mechanics