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types of gears, it also branches into the design of tools to make gears and has an extensive
section on gear failures.
Flitney, R. K. and M. W. Brown. 2007. Seals and Sealing Handbook, 5th ed. Oxford, U.K.:
Elsevier Advanced Technology. Addresses all aspects of seals and sealing technology.
As with many other Elsevier handbooks, contains advertisements from companies in the
industry.
Gad-el-Hak, M., ed. 2006. The MEMS Handbook, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Covers
one of the newest areas of research for mechanical and other engineers: microelectrome-
chanical systems. Included are discussions of scaling, mechanical properties, fabrication,
and lubrication of MEMS as well as ma ...