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Materials Engineering

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Define your topic:

Handbooks: 

Get an overview of your topic:

Dictionaries: 

Define concepts:


Thesauri:

Get synonyms for your keywords:


E-books:

  • ENGnetBASE - online engineering handbooks published by CRC Press
  • Knovel - online reference library for engineering. Access equations, data, drawings, etc. that are found in engineering handbooks and manuals; interactive tools available for some books
  • Springer ebook collection - the Springer Ebook Collection contains books in the following subject areas : Architecture and Design; Behavioral Science; Business and Economics; Earth and Environmental Science; Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences & Law.


Browse the shelves:

You can also browse the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers -

  • TA401 Materials of Engineering and Construction
  • TA405 Mechanics of materials
  • TA418.5 Physical properties of materials
  • TA418.9 Materials of special composition or structure


Contact Librarians (Materials engineering):

Cristina Ghiculescu

c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

3365 6852

Research Information Service

Miranda Mariette

m.mariette@library.uq.edu.au

3346 3502

Teaching and Learning Service

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Summon (Library homepage) provides access to the UQ Library collection of print and online books, journals, theses, newspapers, conference proceedings and more.

Start with the following key databases for this subject area:

  • Compendex
    Citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in engineering and technology.
  • IEEE Xplore digital library
    Provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and current IEEE Standards.
  • Materials research database with METADEX
    Covers all aspects of materials science including international literature on ferrous and non-ferrous metals, polymers, ceramics, plastics and composite materials; the practices of materials science and engineering as they relate to these substances; technical and commercial developments in materials science.
  • Reaxys
    Reaxys is Elsevier's new research system for accessing the combined experimental substance and reaction data housed in the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent chemistry databases
  • ScienceDirect
    Scientific, technological and medical full text and bibliographic information
  • SciFinder
    Access the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.
  • Scopus
    Abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.
  • Web of Science
    Access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.
  • Google Scholar

Browse more materials sciences and engineering databases

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources: 

Additional Resources

  • SpringerMaterials - based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, a data collection covering all areas of physical sciences and engineering
  • ASM alloy phase diagrams centre - The ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center allows subscribers to explore, search and view more than 28,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 systems
  • International tables for crystallography (SpringerLink) - The series comprises articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials.
  • Aerospace structural metals database - This database contains approximately 80,000 data curves on over 200 alloys used in the aerospace and other industries.
  • Science.gov - searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 US federal agencies; some full text available

Statistics and market reports

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics - The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site provides access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information
  • IBISWorld - Detailed analyses of Australian industries, covering major players, industry performance and outlook, market characteristics, industry participants and recent news articles.
  • Business source complete - BSC is a scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. Industry and company reports are also covered.

Patents

For further information see our Patents How-to guide

Theses

Search for Australian and international theses.

Institutional repositories

Standards

Standards: 

Standards are official publications used in industry and trade to describe specifications and procedures. Standards provide rules and recommendations for: quality, safety, performance and construction, codes of practice, methods of testing, symbols and terminology. Use the following databases to locate standards:

  • SAI Global on-line premium
    Full-text access to all current Australian standards; possibility to "unlock" international standards
  • IEEE xplore digital library
    Full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) standards
  • Annual book of ASTM standards
    Access standards in print from the American Society for Testing and Materials; use the ASTM International website (see below) as an index tool for the Annual book of standards
  • ASTM international standards worldwide
    This site provides information about ASTM and its membership and projects as well as indexing ASTM and other standards online

For further information see our Standards How-to guide

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