Library News for Engineering

General Announcement: Olin Library closing early!

Friday, April 25: Olin Library and Whispers Café will close at 6:00pm due to WILD. The Arc will close at 5:30pm. Olin Library and Whispers Café will reopen at 9am Saturday, April 26.

New Books: Week of March 25, 2008

Architecture design for soft errors	Biotechnology, security and the search for limits : an inquiry into research and methods
Contrails over the Mojave : the golden age of jet flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base	Earthquake actuated automatic gas shutoff devices
Guilty robots, happy dogs : the question of alien minds	Handbook of fiber optic data communication : a practical guide to optical networking
IT risk : turning business threats into competitive advantage	Linear circuit design handbook
Mobility, data mining, and privacy : geographic knowledge discovery	MRO inventory and purchasing
Process plant design : project management from inquiry to acceptance	Resource-constrained project scheduling : models, algorithms, extensions and applications
Risk assessment, modeling and decision support : strategic decisions	Safety at the sharp end : a guide to non-technical skills
Starved for science : how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa	Thermoplastic and rubber compounds : technology and physical chemistry

New Resource: CHEMnetBASE & SCI-TECHnetBASE

The Libraries have subscribed to CHEMnetBASE and SCI-TECHnetBASE. These consist of full-text books from CRC Press and Taylor and Francis publishers, and are searchable and/or browsable.

Over 3,100 full-text books across the sciences, fully searchable and browsable. Topics covered include the biomedical sciences, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environmental science, ergonomics and human factors, food science, forensics and criminal justice, healthcase, information technology, life science, material science, math, medicine, nutrition, pharmaceutical science and regulation, physics, and statistics.

More info about CHEMnetBASE. More info about SCI-TECHnetBASE.

New Resource: Materials for Medical Devices Database

The Libraries now have online access to Materials for Medical Devices Database.

The Materials for Medical Devices Database brings to your desktop a comprehensive and authoritative set of mechanical, physical, biological response, and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in medical devices.

Recent additions and updates to the Materials for Medical Devices Database

Information on Specific Forms and Conditions, including Stress-Strain Curves:

Additional material records have been introduced to provide engineering property data for specific product forms and conditions, including stress-strain curves. This will enable better differentiation of materials options in design and for finite element analysis (FEA). Initially, specific data have been added to the Co-28Cr-6Mo  record and the Nitinol record.  Similar data for other materials will be added in future updates.

Orthopaedic Module

New schematics were added for the following Orthopaedic Implants:

Fixation:

• Bone Fixation Cerclage
• Intramedullary Fixation Rod and Accessories

Hips:

• Ceramic on Polymer-Semi  Constrained-Total Hip System
• Metal Femoral-Partial Hip System
• Metal on  Polymer-Constrained-Total Hip System
• Metal on Metal-Semi Constrained-Total Hip System

Knees:

• Non Constrained -Femorotibial-Knees
• Semi  Constrained-Patellofemoral
• Semi  Constrained-Patellofemorotibial
• Uncemented Resurfacing-Tibial-Knees

Biological response data have been added to the  records for:

• PMMA (material)
• CP Titanium (coating)
• Ti-6Al-4V (coating)

Wear attributes have been added to the material and coating records.

New Resource: Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

The Libraries now have online full text access to Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. (1990 - Present)

Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (commonly refered to as PE&RS: the journal for imaging and geospatial information science and technology) is the publication of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

New Books: Week of March 3, 2008

Biotechnology, security and the search for limits : an inquiry into research and methods	Digital literacy : tools and methodologies for information society
Drive solutions : mechatronics for production and logistics	Drug-like properties : concepts, structure design and methods
Inorganic and organometallic macromolecules : design and applications	Maintenance work management processes
Nonlinear and adaptive control with applications	Nonlinear vibrations and stability of shells and plates