WWW Virtual Library:
Mechanical Engineering

University Departments of Mechanical Engineering

On-Line Services

• University of Utah PartNet Online Catalog System

  This server offers information about the a prototype service for finding parts via the WWW.

• Shock & Vibration Information Analysis Center (SAVIAC)

  This server is a central information resource for Government activities, contractors, and academics concerned with structural dynamic analysis, design and testing, and related physical environmental effects.

• On-line Catalog at the Technical University of Darmstadt

  This server (Elektronisches Katalogsystem BLOCAN), describes the Profile-Assembly system of supplier RK ROSE+KRIEGER. These pages are completely auf Deutsch but are an interesting real example, in use since 1993. See also a general description of this work and the Department of Machine Elements and Engineering Design of the Mechanical Engineering description (in English) of the Technical University of Darmstadt.

• Engineering Workstations server

  Engineering Workstations is a server for document authoring at the College of Engineering University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. It points to a wide variety of campus and engineering related information.

• NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS)

  This server is an experimental service that allows simultaneous searching of various NASA abstract and technical report services.

• Catalog of the Engineering Case Library

  This server provides accounts of real engineering work written for use in engineering education, and is provided by the Center for Case Studies in Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. There are cases from almost all disciplines of engineering.
  The full text version of the catalog is also available via anonymous ftp from:
  alfred.carleton.ca in directory /pub/civeng/ECL/
  as ASCII text or as a WordPerfect file.

• Brigham Young University ADCATS

  The ADCATS web site provides various services in dimensioning and tolerance research. This web contains various research articles accessable for user research. Articles from users can also be added to the web archive for research use. This web contains (or will contain) a description and demo (tour) of the ADCATS software being developed at BYU.

• IndustryNET

  IndustryNET carries focused mechanical engineering industry news and many websites for companies in this line of business.

• DuPont Company's Performance Lubricants

  The Lubricants Web contains over 400 pages of scientific and engineering information on Tribology and DuPont's Lubricants. Performance Lubricants makes advanced lubricants and coatings for the most demanding applications in the aerospace, automotive and semiconductor industries, as well as general purpose lubricants for use on almost anything that moves.

• NanoNet

  The National Science Foundation has established this network of nanofabrication facilities for the purpose of providing access to individuals who would otherwise not be able to experiment with advanced nanofabrication technology. The "NanoNet" provides a means for researchers to share information about this National NanoFabrication User Network.

• Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD)

  The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) publishes the JMD and this server provides information on the scope and purpose of the journal, the editorial staff, and information for authors. There is als an index to previous volumes and articles. Forms for submitting and reviewing technical papers are also provided.

• The MathWorks

  These vendor pages provide information on products such as MATLAB, which combines numerical problem solving and graphics. Student editions are available.

• DesignNet

  These CDR SHARE pages are a directory of design services.

Broader Topics

• WWW Virtual Library
• WWW Virtual Library: Engineering,
  which contains general sources of engineering information, including a vendor list.

If you know of Internet-accessible information source(s) that should be included in the WWW Virtual Library --

• For subjects other than Engineering, email to: www-request@info.cern.ch
• For Engineering subjects, email to one of the Engineering Web Server Administrators.