Important Reference Books
Oil and Gas Pipelines
A comprehensive and detailed reference guide on the integrity and safety of oil and gas pipelines, both onshore and offshore. Covers a wide variety of topics, including design, pipe manufacture, pipeline welding, human factors, residual stresses, mechanical damage, fracture and corrosion, protection, inspection and monitoring, pipeline cleaning, direct assessment, repair, risk management, and abandonment.
Engineering Case Studies Online
A comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes.
Finding Information - Try These Databases First
- CompendexEi Compendex (1884 to the present) provides international coverage of all fields of engineering including related areas of applied science, management, and energy.
- Web of Science Core Collection
Web Of Science Core Collection includes Citation Indexes for Arts & Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences
- Scopus
Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.
- Springer Materials
This is the worlds largest database for the identification of physical and chemical properties in Materials Science. It covers data from Materials Science, Physics, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Engineering and other related fields. It supports research in the fields of bulk and fine chemical manufacturing, petroleum and petrochemicals, semiconductors and electronic materials, optical metals, ceramics, polymer synthesis and processing, and materials for fuels and energy application.
- HTEM - High Throughput Experimental Materials DatabaseProvided by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the public version of HTEM DB features composition, structure, optical, and electrical properties of thin films synthesized using combinatorial methods. It currently contains 1,300+ sample libraries with 57,000+ thin film samples, across a wide range of materials (oxides, nitrides, sulfide, intermetallics).
Full-Text Handbook Databases
- Knovel This link opens in a new window
Knovel contains engineering-focused reference works and textbooks. Users can find data hidden in tables, graphs, and equations. Includes interactive tables, equation plotters, charts and graphs that can be manipulated and exported into other tools such as Excel.
- AccessEngineering
AccessEngineering features full text ebook content from McGraw-Hill engineering publications.
ASM Handbooks and Alloy Index
- ASM Handbooks OnlineASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of thirty ASM Handbook volumes, several ASM Handbook supplements, and two ASM Desk Editions
