Welcome to Alistair's engineering tutorials at alistairstutorials.co.uk
(animations of machines formerly on this site are now on http://www.machine-animations.co.uk)
I am a retired mechanical engineer looking to fill some time, hence these web pages. For me they are a challenge and fun to prepare. I hope you find something interesting on the site.
Tutorials are in three broad subject categories: strength of materials, mechanics of machines and robotics accessed from the sidebar links. The pitch generally is at the level of the early stages of an engineering degree course.
I emphasise aspects which I (still do) find tricky and are sometimes glossed over in text books. The material is not a rigorous presentation of theory - for that you need a recognised text book or formal course material.
Text and diagrams are my own composition and all intellectual content is "body of knowledge" in the public domain. In this respect I must acknowledge the following classic text books I frequently refer to for guidance:
Case and Chilver, Strength of materials, Edward Arnold, 1964
Shigley, Mechanical engineering design, McGraw-Hill, 1986
Den Hartog, Mechanics, Dover Publications, 1961
Hannah and Stephens, Mechanics of machines, Edward Arnold, 1982
The old ones are still the best ones!
I have acknowledged source material for robotics in the tutorials themselves.
I welcome feedback at: