Welcome to Alistair's engineering tutorials at alistairstutorials.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 four broad subject categories: strength of materials, mechanics of machines, mechanical vibrations 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 acknowledge specific source material for robotics within the relevant tutorials.
I welcome feedback at: