Sunday, May 25, 2008

Need a Link; Give a Link: Call for Engineering Links

Ever go into a store and see a cup with a note, "Need a Penny; Give a Penny"? Same applies here. Over 100+ unique readers check in each week, so if we can each leave one or two of our favorite links, we can grow quite a list.



All you have to do is leave a quick comment with the link and a quick statement (if applicable) of what you use it for. I'll start the list. Obviously, the standard is Matweb - clearly the most popular among the bunch. All of you flow guys out there, really looking for good fluid flow property sites.

Unit Conversion Calculator

Another Unit Converter

General Material Properties - Matweb

Plastic Material Properties

Pipe Pressure Loss Calculator

Compressible Flow Refresher

Atmospheric Pressure Calculator

Old School Mesh Size Calculator

eFluids - random fluid links

CFD Lecture Notes

Electronics Cooling Magazine

CFD-online - great CFD discussion forums

I will begin to organize these a bit more as comments are posted. Disclaimer- these are all links that I have used over the years. Take them for what they are - random links.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Engauge Digitizer
http://digitizer.sourceforge.net/

One of the more useful tools I've seen out there for everyday engineering. Plus, it's free! Did someone fax a graph of data to you? Need to get it into actual data form in excel? Put away your ruler and just scan the picture into this tool. It converts images or copies of graphs into real data! Magic!

Anonymous said...

Another pressure drop calculator:
http://www.pressure-drop.com/Online-Calculator/index.html

It gives you the ability to change the section of the pipe, include bends...

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This one is cool to estimates of diffusion coefficients: http://www.epa.gov/athens/learn2model/part-two/onsite/estdiffusion.htm