This invaluable handbook provides engineers and technicians with more than 5,000 calculations for solving day-to-day problems in all ten major engineering fields. The new Fourth Edition features numerous new areas from new design codes in civil engineering to miniaturization, new approaches to HVAC design, composite usage in engineering design, and laptop computer office and field calculations. THE NEW FOURTH EDITION FEATURES: * Wind-energy system calculations * Complying with new environmental requirements in engineering * Structural engineering changes in buildings to fight terrorism * Data on suitable computer programs for solving repetitive computational problems * New power plant cost-saving calculations * Finite element analysis methods of calculations * Data on refrigerants required to replace Freon gases * New pump material and calculation methods