Engineering Resources
Engineering Design Guides
Aluminum Extrusion Design Guide
- Guidance on process, shapes, size, and material, etc...
Aluminum Extrusion Tolerancing Guide
- Guidance on aluminum extrusion tolerancing
Arc-Welding Handbook
The Brazing Book - Guidebook
Castings Design Guide - lots of good info on the site beyond the guide
Composite Materials Design Guide
Die-Casting Guide - North American Die-Casting Association Multimedia
design guides
Direct Metal Deposition - Primer
Elastomer Design Guide - Guidance on the physics, chemistry
and other design properties of elastomers
Engineering Drawings - Guide
- Design for the Environment - Guide
Fatigue Strength Design - Guide
Fatigue Strength Design - Guide
Fatigue Strength Design - Guide
Forging Design Guide - from www.forging.org
Forging Design Guide
Friction Stir Welding - guide
Joining and Fabricating Lectures From MIT's web lectures
Laser beam, electron beam , and plasma arc welding - general info
Laser welding - process guide
Life Cycle Design - guide article
Material Properties - Guide
Materials Selection - Guide
Materials Selection - Guide by property
Metal Finishing Design Guide
Metric Steel Tube and Rod Guide - sizes, materials, and tolerances
MIM Design Guide
Plastic Injection Molding Design Guide - focusing on parts and process
Plastic Overmolding Overview - General guide to overmolded
parts and process
Plastic Staking or Swaging Design Guide - An option for
plastic assembly and fastening
Plastic Thermoforming Part Design Guide - registration required, but worth it for this detailed guide to thermoforming from
Bayer Materials Science
Plastic Thermoform Design Guide
Plastic Ultrasonic
Assembly Guidebook - process, parts, and methods
Powdered Metal Process Overview
Powdered Metal Design Guidebook - shapes, materials, etc...
Powdered Metal Part Specification Guidelines
Quality Design Guides - free quality design guides
Rapid Prototyping Guide
Resistance Seam Welding - guide
Sandwich Beam Theory - rigorous
theory for sandwich beams
Sheet Metal Bending Guide
Sheet Metal Design Guidelines
Sheet Metal Stamping Design Guide
Shot-Peening Design Guide
Spring Design Guide - compression, tension, and torsion
springs
Surface Roughness Quicksheet - by process
Surface Roughness Terminology Guide
Threaded Fastener Design Guide
User Needs Analysis - discussion of how to design
for users' needs
Welding Knowledge Guide
www.design-bites.com - purchase design guide downloads, very reasonable prices for
the content
Guide to Preparing a Utility Patent - you don't HAVE to have a lawyer
How to Search Patents - not difficult, just requires time, diligence, and persistence
www.mindtools.com - Creative Problem Solving Guides
Engineering Books
Machine Design: An Integrated Approach (3rd Edition)
Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems
Modern Control Systems (11th Edition) (Pie)
Controlling Design Variants: Modular Product Platforms
Design and Analysis of Experiments
The Basics of FMEA
Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering; How to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production
Introduction to Human Factors Engineering (2nd Edition)
Human Factors In Engineering and Design
The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design
Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design
Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development: Eco-Efficient Product Development
Printed Circuits Handbook (McGraw Hill Handbooks)
Electronic Drafting and Printed Circuit Board Design
Practical Electronics Handbook, Sixth Edition
Rapid Prototyping
Engineering Texts and Theory On the Web
Free Online MIT courses online (INCREDIBLE RESOURCE)
Applied Aero Online Textbook
Design and Analysis of Machine Elements
Digital Signal Processing Textbook
Fundamentals of Diecasting Design
Electronic Circuits Textbook
Basic Electronics Textbook
Fluid Mechanics Textbook
Fracture Mechanics
Fundamentals of Compressible Fluid Mechanics Textbook
GD&T Textbook
Strength of Materials Online TextBook
Heat Transfer Textbook
Newtonian Physics Textbook
Analytical Classical Dynamics Textbook
Multimedia Statics Text
Multimedia Dynamics Text
Multimedia Fluid Mechanics Text
Multimedia Thermodynamics Text
Multimedia Basic Math Text
72 Complete Online Mathematics Texts - 72! Complete! Incredible!
List of Numerous Complete Online Math Texts -
organized by topic
Connexions - view and share educational material: courses, books, reports, etc...
Reliability Engineering Theory
General Engineering Resources
www.calculatoredge.com - Huge selection of online engineering calculators
www.martindalecenter.com - Even bigger collection of calculators
www.efunda.com - General Engineering Website
www.engcen.com - General Engineering Website
www.engineeringtoolbox.com - Comprehensive Engineering Knowledge and Content Website
www.engineering.com - General Engineering Website
www.engineeringtalk.com - Huge collection of engineering related articles
www.engineers.com - The Engineers Club Online Technical Resources
www.engineersedge.com - General Engineering Website
www.engineershandbook.com - General Engineering Website
www.engplanet.com - General Engineering Website
www.machinedesign.com - Machine Design Magazine Home Page
List of 100 must-buy design books
www.engineer.net - Engineering Job Site
www.gearhob.com - General Engineering
www.roymech.co.uk - General Engineering
www.thefabricator.com - Methods for fabricating nearly anything
Component Resources
www.mcmaster.com - McMaster-Carr - Quick-shipping company for common
hardware components - many models and drawings available for download. One of the quickest ways to find commonly
available hardware and other common components for your designs and prototypes.
MotionNET.com - directory of component manufacturers listed by component
Membrane Switch Design Guide
Material Resources
www.matweb.com - Matweb - Free, comprehensive list of material specifications.
Includes names of suppliers and material manufacturers.
Composites Stress Analysis Chapter - Excellent engineering guide
on composites and stress analysis of composites.
www.scientific.net - Online access to a vast database of material science papers and reports. Pay service.
www.materialstoday.com - Online magazine highlighting leading edge advances in materials science.
Torlon Design Guide (Polyamide/imide)
Celcon Design Guide (Acetal)
Prototyping
www.quickparts.com - Plastic molding and rapid prototyping company that will
quote parts based upon an uploaded model in 2 minutes or less (as advertised). Very fast turn around of prototype and
tooled parts.
Quickcast - Method for quickly
prototyping cast metal components. You must supply user info to download, but well worth it.
Industry Specific
www.appliancedesign.com - Articles pertaining to all engineering and design
aspects of appliances. Fantastic content, and useful for other fields including consumer goods, medical, and automotive design.
Industrial Design Technology - news site
Medical Design - Ezine
Standards
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM International - American Society for Testing and Materials
IHS, Inc. - Purchase Standards from a huge number of standardizing bodies
ISO - International Standards Organization
SES - Standards Engineering Society
Engineering Blogs
Ideal Mechanism Blog - documents developments in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and interaction design
The Engine Ear - Hearing and Churning Just What Matters - Engineering!
Mechanisms 101 - Interactive, illustrated, and working mechanisms
BetterProductDesign.net - Articles
Selected Engineering Papers and Articles
Creativity in Engineering
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