This site is a general source for engineering and reference data serving designers, educators and engineers. These links provide information and references that are available on the world wide web.
A collection of structural engineering formulas and tables is available for those wishing to perform strength analysis. The collection contains formulas, descriptions, tutorial and reference tables. It is a textbook available for on-line download that you can use off-line on your own computer.
This collection can be purchased upon payment confirmation at the following link.
Download is available by email for $19.95. Select the PayPal link to order. A link to download the textbook will be sent to you within two days.
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A good site with software for structural analysis of beams can be found at WWW.Cedarhouse.co.UK . Determination of bolt torques is also available at this United Kingdom location.
CADRE Analytic provides finite element software and consulting services. They can be reached at www.CadreAnalytic.com or by e-mail to cadre_analytic@csi.com
If you need plans for sheds, the Women in woodworking and Woodworking websites are valuable spots. These sites provide access to thousands of plans and construction helps.
Chemical Engineering and Process Control information is available at the Ice-Web website. This Austrailian site gives useful links to hundreds of other engineering sites.
Many of the Specifications used to define facilities and devises used by the public can be obtained using this link. Fees are required for most of them.
The city of Seattle has a good page devoted to providing engineers with access to their specifications for Boilers. This page has links to many other codes and specifications that can be reviewed at no cost.
Material properties can be found using this site. Numerous material properties are available at no cost with links to suppliers.
A triangle solution spreadsheet for Microsoft Excel ( Tri.xls) release 3.0 can be downloaded. The spreadsheet allows triangles to be solved given any three of the six parameters for a triange (angles and side lengths).
Calculation of cross section area, centroid, moments of inertia and the orientation of the principle axes can be done for any shape using the Section.xls Excel 3.0 (and up) spreadsheet.
Faith of the Engineer
I am an engineer. In my profession I take deep pride, but without vain glory; to it I owe
solemn obligations that I am eager to fulfill.
As an engineer, I will participate in none but honest enterprise. To those who have engaged my services, as employeer or client, I will give the utmost of performance and fidelity.
When needed, my skills and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good. From special capacity springs the obligation to use it well in the service of humanity; and I accept the challenge that this implies.
Jealous of the high repute of my calling, I will strive to protect the interests of and the good name of the engineer that I know to be deserving; but I will not shrink, should duty dictate, from disclosing the truth regarding anyone who by unscrupulous act, has shown conduct unworthy of the profession.
Since the Age of Stone, human progress has been conditioned by the genius of my professional forebears. By them have been rendered usable to mankind nature's vast resources of material and energy. By them have been vitalized and turned to practical account the principles of science and the revelations of technology. Except for this heritage of accumulated experience, my efforts would be feeble. I dedicate myself to the dissemination of engineering knowledge, and especially to the instruction of younger members of my profession in all its arts and traditions.
Engineer's Code of Ethics
Engineers uphold and advance the integrity, honor and dignity of the engineering
profession by:
1. Using their knowledge and skill for the advancement of human welfare;
2. Being honest and impartial and serving with fidelity the public, their employeers and
clients;
3. Striving to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering profession; and
4. Supporting the professional and technical societies of their disciplines.
Reprinted from The Engineers' Council for Professional Development
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Last update - 01/02/99, 5/1/05