Mechanical Engineering: Internet Resources

The AIAA electronic library contains more than four decades of technical information and documents, online accessible and fully equipped to meet your needs.

Find over 10,000 catalogs, 40,000 material data sheets, and 50,000 application notes at this site.

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.

The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public.