Build a Better Mousetrap? Spring into Mechanical Action!
Selected Sources
All located in SEL unless otherwise noted

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Print Books

Balancing of high-speed machinery
TJ 177 .D37 1989

Classical and modern mechanisms for engineers and inventors
TJ 181 .J44 1991

Compliant mechanisms : design of flexure hinges (also ebook in EngNetBase)
TJ 181 .L63 2003

Design and application of the Worm gear
TJ200 .C76 2002

Designing cost-efficient mechanisms : minimum constraint design, designing with commercial components, and topics in design engineering
TJ 230 .K25 1990

Dynamics of mechanical systems
TJ 145 .J67 2002

Failure of materials in mechanical design : analysis, prediction, prevention
TA 460 .C63 1993

Fatigue design : life expectancy of machine parts
TJ 243 .Z29 1996

A history of the machine
TJ 15 .S77 1979

How things work : the physics of everyday life
QC 21.2 .B59 1997

Introduction to mechatronics and measurement systems
TJ163.12 .H57 2003

Landmarks in mechanical engineering (also ebook in NetLibrary)
TJ 23 .L35 1997

Lego Mindstorms mechatronics
TJ 163.12 .W55 2004

Machine design : an integrated approach
TJ 230 .N64 2000

Mechanical behavior of materials : engineering methods for deformation, fracture, and fatigue
TA 404.8 .D68 1999

The mechanical design process
TJ 230 .U54 2003

Mechanics of materials
TA 405 .C89 2000

Mechanisms & mechanical devices sourcebook
TJ 181 .C399 1991

Mechatronic systems : fundamentals
TJ 163.12 .I84 2003

Mechatronics and machine vision
TJ 163.12 .M433 2000

Mechatronics and the design of intelligent machines and systems
TJ 163.12 .M4333 2000

Optimum design of mechanical elements
TJ 233 .J63 1980

Spring designer’s handbook
TJ 210 .C37

Theory of machines and mechanisms
TJ 145 .U33 2003

Tribology in machine design
TJ 233 .S76 1990

Electronic Books

netLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com/
Landmarks in mechanical engineering (1997)

Dave Baum’s definitive guide to Lego Mindstorms (2000)

Mechatronics in engineering design and product development (1999)

EngNetBase http://www.engnetbase.com/

Compliant mechanisms : design of flexure hinges (2003)

Mechanism design: enumeration of kinematic structures according to function (2001)

The mechatronics handbook (2001)

Electronic Journal

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics : a joint publication of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division.
In IEEE Xplore database
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=3516

Internet Sites
eFunda: the Ultimate Online Reference for Engineers http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Bibliography compiled by B. Howser 03/25/05