Aerospace Subject Guide


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.

Other guides available:
Aerospace | Automobile | Combustion, Engines and Fuels | Construction and Building Services | Energy, Environment and Sustainability | Fluid Machinery | Management | Manufacturing | Mechatronics, Informatics and Control | Medical Engineering | Power Industries | Pressure Systems | Process Industries | Railway | Safety and Reliability | Structural Technology and Materials | Thermofluids | Tribology

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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.

Topic Shelf Number
Aerodynamics 629.1323

Aerospace engineering

629.1
Aircraft – fixed wing 629.13334
Aircraft – rotary wing 629.13335
Aircraft engines 629.13435
Aircraft fuels 629.134351
Aircraft history 629.1309
Aircraft instruments 629.135
Aircraft structures & materials 629.134
Aircraft systems 629.133
Airships 629.13324
Aviation safety 614.869
Crashworthiness 656.04
Flight mechanics 629.132
Jet engines

629.134353

Space vehicles 625.4

Useful Books

Care and repair of advanced
composites
(Armstrong KB, Barrett RT and Cole WF) 		629.1342.ARM

An introduction to the flight
dynamics of rigid aeroplanes
(Hancock GJ) 		629.1312 HAN
Jane’s all the world’s aircraft
(Jackson P and Jane’s
Information Group) 		629.333
(Directory)
Principles of helicopter
aerodynamics
(Leishman JG) 		629.13335 LEI
Elements of gas turbine
propulsion
(Mattingly JD) 		629.134353
Aircraft structures for
engineering students
(Megson THD) 		629.1341 MEG
Aircraft systems: mechanical,
electrical and avionics
subsystems integration
(Moir I and Seabridge A) 		629.133 MOI
The jet engine
(Rolls-Royce Ltd) 		629.13435
(ROL Oversize)
SAE dictionary of
aerospace engineering
(SAE) 		629.103 SOC
Rocket propulsion elements
(Sutton GP and Biblarz O) 		629.134354 SUT

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
Jenkinson, LR Civil jet aircraft design
Lynch D, Introduction to RF Stealth (2004)
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 Structures (Knovel Interactive Edition)
Sutton, GP Rocket propulsion elements (2001)
Stimson GW, Introduction to Airborne Radar (2nd Edition) (1998)

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.

E-journals

The following titles are available via EBSCO Business Source in the IMechE Virtual Library:

Airline business
Aircraft economics
Air transport world
Aviation week and space technology
Business and commercial aviation
Flight international
Flight daily news
Journal air transportation worldwide

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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