About the Design Aids
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement

I am grateful to the following professionals, who in one form or the other have contributed to the writing of this book.

• Mr. Rajesh Kumar, a professional associate in the field of Mills and their Foundations, for prompting me to write this book on Mill Foundation for Practising Engineers and providing necessary clarifications and support at various stages throughout the tenure of writing this book.
• Dr. A.K. Singh, my colleague at BHEL, for his extensive support in tackling analytical and various field problems on this subject all along my association with him.
• Dr. Bhaskar Sarma, my ex-colleague from BHEL for his support from time to time on various vibration related issues.
• Mr. P Shakivel, for his extensive support in modeling and design of real-life problems.
• Mr. Nakul Joshi, for his extensive support in FE modeling, Analysis, Field Vibration Testing and troubleshooting of variety of real-life machines and their foundation.
• Mr. Chandresh Pandya, a professional associate in the field of Machine Foundation, for his analytical support and discussions at various stages of writing this book.
• Mr. Aashish & Ms. Anu, and Dr. Amit & Ms. Shilpa, my sons & daughters- in-law, for providing software and hardware support as well as technical support in Modeling and Analysis of various engineering problems, editing, formatting etc.
• Mrs. Manju Bhatia, my wife, for her patience, moral support, and encouragement throughout the tenure of the book without which it would not have been possible to complete the task.