Library Guides: Mechanical Engineering: Reference Sources

Reference Tools

Knovel E-Books This link opens in a new window
Knovel eBooks provides access to highly desired handbooks, manuals, some textbooks, and other items in a cohesive fashion. It interacts with Engineering Village to provide seamless moving from journals to books, to providing tools to help use the information found in the eBooks. Examples include online graphing tools, materials information under different conditions, and equations for calculating using your data. Knovel is more than just books.

Knovel eBooks provides access to highly desired handbooks, manuals, some textbooks, and other items in a cohesive fashion. It interacts with Engineering Village to provide seamless moving from journals to books, to providing tools to help use the information found in the eBooks. Examples include online graphing tools, materials information under different conditions, and equations for calculating using your data. Knovel is more than books.
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Encyclopedias and General Resources

Springer Handbook of Mechanical Engineering [electronic resource]
Call Number: TJ151.S795 2009
The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, Second Edition
Call Number: TJ151.C73 2005
Machinery's Handbook
Call Number: TJ151 .M3
Modern Machine Shop's Machinist's Handbook for the Metalworking Industries by Woodrow W. Chapman (Editor)
Call Number: TJ1165.M56 2002
ISBN: 156990345X
Publication Date: 2002-07-01
This handbook blends traditional and modern topics relevant to the operation of machine shops. In addition to supplying a wide range of reference tables covering all aspects of machining, composition of materials, and dimensions of tooling and machine components, it covers topics such as accuracy in
Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
Call Number: TJ151.M3701 12th.ed.

ASM Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
American Society for Metals handbooks featuring property data for materials of all types

This resource features extensive engineering and property data for materials of all types. It contains the fulltext of several ASM handbooks including the Metals Handbook and the Engineered Materials Handbook.

ASHRAE Handbook online [electronic resource]
Call Number: TH7201
practical repository of knowledge on the various topics that form the field of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration

Taylor and Francis ebooks This link opens in a new window
Collection of e-books to use on a variety of topics.

Provides full-text access to purchased and various open access Taylor & Francis Ebooks, which include imprints published by Routledge, CRC Press, and Garland Science.