Research Guides: Mechanical Engineering: Reference

Online Reference

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Knovel is a library of science and engineering ebooks, articles, handbooks, and datasets.

Referex
Part of Engineering Village, this is a full-text collection of hundreds of engineering reference books.
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Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. Google Scholar searches a variety of undisclosed academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. The full text of many items is freely available online, although in some instances abstracts with links to pay-per-view inter-library loan are displayed.

Reference Databases

AccessEngineering
AccessEngineering is focused around 14 major areas of engineering: • Biomedical • Chemical • Civil • Communications • Construction • Electrical • Energy • Environmental • Green/Sustainable • Industrial • Material Science • Mechanical • Nanotechnology • Opticalfeatures It features content from a broad range of engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more.
Gale Databases
Collection of general reference databases with specialized collections on a wide variety of topics including literary research, company information, Spanish language periodicals and newspaper full text articles and indexing.
ASME Citation Style Guide
Preferred style in mechanical engineering

Reference Books

These books are available in the reference section, unless otherwise noted.

Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering by History and Heritage Committee, ASME
Call Number: TJ23 .L35 1997
ISBN: 9781557530943
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
The book describes, and where possible illustrates, historic mechanical engineering landmarks, representing the accomplishments of mechanical engineers over the past 250 years-from the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen (1712), which launched the Industrial Revolution, to the Saturn V rocket (1967). Some of them are recognizable to us all, such as Xerography, Sikorsky's helicopter, and Disneyland's monorail. Others work behind the scenes or have been superseded, such as the Owens AR bottle machine and the Jackson Ferry Shot Tower. The landmarks are grouped into such categories as mechanical power production, power transmission, minerals extraction and refining, food processing, environmental control, transportation, biomedical engineering, and communications and data processing. Each section is introduced by an essay that helps place each landmark into the context of technical and general history. While some of these landmarks have not survived intact, others can be visited, and travel information is provided. The machines that shape our society help educate us about an important facet of human history and how technology has influenced it. ASME International's landmarks program identifies and recognizes artifacts of significance before they disappear. This roster of landmarks tells a magnificent story of people and places and of innovation and discovery.
Mechanical Engineer's Reference Book (12th Edition)
Call Number: Online
This new edition provides qualified engineers with sufficient information to identify the basic principles of a subject and to be directed to further reading if required. Eighteen chapters discuss topics such as mechanical engineering, electrical and electronics principles; computers; materials, properties and selection; mechanics of solids; tribology; power units and transmission; fuels and combustion; alternative energy sources; nuclear, offshore, and plant engineering; manufacturing methods; mathematics; health and safety; and units, symbols and constants. 153 Digitized Graphs and 7 Interactive Tables have recently been added.

Source of Materials Information

MatWeb
What is MatWeb? MatWeb's searchable database of material properties includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.
Crystal Lattice-Structures
This site is an interface to a crystal structure database that includes every structure published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, as well as selected datasets from other journals. The database is maintained under the care of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, and financed by the National Science Foundation.