August 5, 2013

Books Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas

• YC-14 STOL Prototype
• Boeing 727
• Aerodynamics
• Aircraft Design
• Static Stability and Control
• Supersonic planes
• Theory of Wing Sections
• Aircraft Design: Synthesis and Analysis

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords. Electronic Handbooks and Encyclopedias: Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

• AccessScience  
• See: Lift and Drag Definitions, Aerodynamic Wave Drag, Airfoil, Reynolds Number and Aircraft Design
• ASM Handbooks Online
• ebrary
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MECHANICALENGINEERINGnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE
• Thermopedia (NEW RESOURCE) The entirely revised online version of the THERMOPEDIAtm covers a wide range of fundamental topics including thermodynamics and physical properties, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and basic equations and their methods of solution.

See also: Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology Some electronic books and chapters:

• Air Planes Design and Construction - from ebrary
• Aerodynamics and Aircraft Flight -from ENGnetBASE
• Supersonic Aircraft - from Knovel
• Airfoil - from AccessScience
• An introduction to theoretical and computational aerodynamics - from Google books
• Advances in Spacecraft Systems and Orbit Determination
• Applied Aerodynamics:A Digital Textbook

Case Studies:

• YC-14 Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST)
• YC-14 Military Transport
• Anatomy of Concorde
• Development of A New Supersonic Aircraft
• Case Studies of Aircraft Design

Electronic Databases Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.

• Annual Reviews
• ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Database
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journals
• Begell Digital Library
• Engineering Village - Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• Material ConneXion
• Materials Research Database
• MatWeb
• NASA Techinical Reports Server
• NIST Nanotechnology Portal
• ScienceDirect
• Scirus
• Web of Science

Brief description for electronic databases: Various Electronic Databases Data Sites

Web Resources

• UIUC Airfoil Data Site The UIUC Airfoil Data Site is a collection of airfoil coordinates and airfoil related links. The UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database includes the airfoils, and they cover a wide range of applications from low Reynolds number airfoils for UAVs and model aircraft to jet transports and wind turbines.
• Summary of Airfoil data The historical development of NACA airfoils is briefly reviewed. New data are presented that permit the rapid calculation of the approximate pressure distributions for the older NACA four-digit and five-digit airfoils by the same methods used for the NACA 6-series airfoils.
• The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage
• NACA Airfoil
• NACA Airfoil Series
• NACA Airfoil Series
• Summary of Airfoil Data
• References to NACA Airfoil Geometry and Aerodynamics
• NACA FOUR-DIGIT AIRFOIL SECTION GENERATION USING CUBIC PARAMETRIC CURVE SEGMENTS AND THE GOLDEN SECTION
• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Chartered in 1915, operational from 1917-1958. Full Text Reports from 1917-1958. See: E. R. Eckert, John N. B. Livingood; Method for calculation of laminar heat transfer in air flow around cylinders of arbitrary cross section (including large temperature differences and transpiration cooling); naca-report-1118; 1953
• AIRFOIL Tools:  NACA 0018:
• Development of Aviation Technology: Airfoils
• Historical Evolution of Airfoil Sections
• The Characteristics of 78 Related Airfoil Sections From Tests in the Variable-Density Wind Tunnel. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) Technical Report 460, 1933.
• Airfoil section data obtained in the NACA variable-density tunnel as affected by support interference and other corrections
• Where can I get airfoil performance data?
• Simulation Packages Expand Aircraft Design Options
• Software for Aerodynamics and Aircraft Design
• Aircraft Design Software

Patent Searching United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present. See What is a Patent? See Patent Searching Tips. See 'What is Intellectual Property?' in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors See 'Manual of Patent Classification' Fresh Patents Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny. pat2pdf.org Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent. The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO--from patents issued in the 1790s to present.