Materials Engineering

Finding Research Articles and Conference Papers

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
This database includes only articles from the top 600 most heavily used journals in Engineering. Most of the articles come from journals published by the major American professional societies: ACM, IEEE, ASCE, ASME, SAE, etc. The one great advantage of using this database is that there are hyperlinks out to the electronic full text of the articles, when they are included in Cal Poly's subscriptions.
Compendex (Engineering Village 2
Compendex is a vast database of over 10 million references to engineering articles, conference papers, and other resources. It covers all engineering topics and includes resources from around the world in many languages. There are no hyperlinks out to Cal Poly's full text journals, so you must search in PolyCat to see if Cal Poly has the items you turn up in the database.
Google Scholar
A version of Google that is supposed to return only scholarly sources.
OAIster
A collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
Scirus
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Finding Books

PolyCat
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LINK+
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Melvyl
This database lists over 12 million items at the libraries of the University of California system and the California State Library. Melvyl includes primarily books, but it lists many (but not all) publications from U.S. federal agencies (like the Defense Department, Energy Department, and NASA). Any item you find in Melvyl that is not available at Cal Poly can be ordered through the Kennedy Library's Interlibrary Loan service.
WorldCat
This database is the largest of the book databases. It includes books plus videos, web resources, CD-ROMs, and many other kinds of documents. Again, most things you find listed in the database will have to be ordered through our Interlibrary Loan service.

Materials, Machine

Tool materials
Call Number: Reference. TS320 .T66 1995
Davis, J. R.
Materials Park, OH: ASM International; 1995.

Materials, Steel

Carbon and alloy steels.
Call Number: Reference. TA479.C37 C37 1996
Davis, J. R.
Materials Park, OH: ASM International; 1996.

Materials, Testing

Handbook of nondestructive evaluation.
New York: McGraw-Hill; 2001.
Call Number: Reference. TA417.2 .H45 2001
Hellier, Charles.

Materials, Thermodynamic Properties

Pressure-volume-temperature relationship of organic compounds. 3rd ed.
Sandusky, OH: Handbook Publishers, 1952.
Call Number: MAIN. QD518 .D7 1952 (Oversize)
Dreisbach, Robert R.
Thermophysical properties of high temperature solid materials>.
Call Number: Reference. TA418.26 .P8
Thermophysical Properties Research, Center.
New York: Macmillan, 1967.

Tribology and Wear

Tribology handbook.
Call Number: Reference. TJ1075 .N4
Neale, M. J.
London, England: Butterworths: 1973.
Standard handbook of lubrication engineering.
Call Number: Reference. TJ1075 .S8
O'Connor, James J.; Boyd, John, and Avallone, Eugene A.
New York: McGraw-Hill for American Society of Lubrication Engineers; 1968.