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Engineering with Mathcad
Using Mathcad to Create and Organize your Engineering Calculations
- 1st Edition - November 18, 2006
- Author: Brent Maxfield
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 6 6 9 4 - 1
Using the author’s considerable experience of applying Mathcad to engineering problems, Engineering with Mathcad identifies the most powerful functions and features of the softwa… Read more
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Request a sales quoteUsing the author’s considerable experience of applying Mathcad to engineering problems, Engineering with Mathcad identifies the most powerful functions and features of the software and teaches how to apply these to create comprehensive engineering calculations. Many examples from a variety of engineering fields demonstrate the power and utility of Mathcad’s tools, while also demonstrating how other software, such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, can be incorporated effectively. This simple, step-by-step approach makes this book an ideal Mathcad text for professional engineers as well as engineering and science students.A CD-ROM packaged with the book contains all the examples in the text and an evaluation version of the Mathcad software, enabling the reader to learn by doing and experiment by changing parameters.
* Identifies the key Mathcad functions for creating comprehensive engineering calculations* A step-by-step approach enables easy learning for professional engineers and students alike* Includes a CD-ROM containing all the examples in the text and an evaluation version of the Mathcad software
All types of engineers – mechanical, civil, structural, electrical - working in industry as engineers or consulting engineers. Students applying Mathcad to engineering.
IntroductionVariablesCreating and Editing Mathcad ExpressionsSimple User-Defined FunctionsUnits!Mathcad SettingsCustomizing MathcadTemplatesArrays, Vectors, and MatricesSelected Mathcad FunctionsPlottingSimple Logic ProgrammingIntroduction to Symbolic CalculationsSolving Engineering EquationsAdvanced ProgrammingPutting It All TogetherAssembling Calculations from Standard Calculation WorksheetsImporting Files from Other Programs into MathcadCommunicating with Other Programs Using ComponentsMicrosoft Excel ComponentInputs and OutputsHyperlinks and Tables of ContentsConclusion
- No. of pages: 512
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 18, 2006
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780080466941
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Brent Maxfield
Brent Maxfield is a Professional Structural Engineer in Utah and a Professional Civil Engineering in California. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brigham Young University with a degree in Civil Engineering and earned a Master of Engineering Management degree. He is active in professional associations, having served on the Board of Directors of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah and in the Structural Advisory Committee to the Utah Uniform Building Codes Commission. He has used Mathcad extensively for nearly 20 years. In Essential Mathcad, Maxfield shares his vast Mathcad experience and knowledge.
Affiliations and expertise
Professional Engineer, Salt Lake City, UT, USA