The Information and Library Service compiles occasional subject guides for engineers and students. The aim is to highlight sources of information available in the Library and the Institution itself, along with some useful websites to take you further afield.
Locating Aerospace Information in the IMechE Library
The following is a list of key shelf numbers for the aerospace subject area. If you are looking for a particular book please check the Library Catalogue.
Useful Books
E-books
The following titles are available via Knovel in the IMechE Virtual Library:
Howe, Denis Aircraft conceptual design synthesis
Hyder AK, Spacecraft power technologies
Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-17-4A: Composite Materials Handbook, Volume 4 - Metal Matrix Composites
Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle
The following titles are available via Books24x7 in the IMechE Virtual Library:
Aircraft engine design, AIAA 2002
Aircraft engines and gas turbines, MIT Press, 1992
Aircraft landing gear design: principles and practice, AIAA 1988
Elements of propulsion: gas turbines and rockets, AIAA 2006
Flight control systems, IET, 2000
Introduction to aeronautics: a design perspective, AIAA 2004
Introduction to aircraft flight mechanics: performance AIAA. 2003
Modelling and simulation of aerospace vehicle dynamics AIAA 2000
Recent IMechE Aerospace Conferences and Seminars
Please visit Aerospace Papers and Presentations (Archive)
Useful Aerospace Journals
The Library has an extensive collection of journals including:
The aeronautical journal 1968-
Aerospace international 2005-
Aerospace professional 2003-
Flight international 5 years
International journal of engine research 2001-
Jane’s defence weekly 2 years
Jane’s international defence review 2 years
Proceedings of the IMechE part G: journal of aerospace engineering 1989-
Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences 1988-
Please check the
Library Catalogue to see if the Library subscribes to your required journal.
A number of journals are available electronically via EBSCO which is available in the IMechE Virtual Library. Click here to see a list of titles or to see titles by subject.
Databases
ESDU
The library holds the ESDU (Engineering Science Data Unit) datasheets which contain validated data and design methods, principles, worked examples, programs and related equations on over 1,200 specific aerospace, process, structural and mechanical engineering topics. The ESDU database can be viewed in the library. Datasheets are available for week loan to members and cannot be photocopied.
Please visit the Virtual Library page for further information about the library's databases.
Websites
Please visit Aerospace Web Links
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