Readers of K-News have two weeks of open access to a select title or group of titles in each issue. This issue features two titles from the Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering Subject Area:
Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) ( c ) 2003, U.S. Department of Defense. This handbook is the successor to Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-5. It is recognized internationally as a reliable source of aircraft materials data for aerospace materials selection and analysis. Consistent and reliable methods are used to collect, analyze, and present statistically based material and fastener allowable properties. It contains extensive information and data for other material properties and characteristics, such as fracture toughness, fatigue, creep strength, rupture strength, fatigue-crack propagation rate, and resistance to stress corrosion cracking.
Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures (Knovel Interactive Edition) 
( c ) 2003, U.S. Department of Defense. This 2003 publication is the highly interactive Knovel version of the Department of Defense's Military Handbook MIL-HDBK-5H. It contains standardized design values and related design information for metallic materials and structural elements used in aerospace vehicle structures. It provides mechanical and physical property data, including fatigue-crack propagation rate; fracture toughness; fatigue, creep, and rupture strength for steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and other alloys; and a whole chapter on joint allowables. In Knovel's version, each of the design and mechanical property data tables is interactive. In addition, Knovel has digitally calibrated hundreds of graphs, such as the effect of temperature on various physical properties and stress-strain curves.
Start using these two titles now! You have immediate and unlimited access for the next two weeks—no registration required. Enjoy!
