Composites Reference Guide

Reference Guide: Composites Selected Starting Points, Davidson Library, UCSB

Other Related Reference Guides: Biotechnology Ceramics Chemical Engineering Composites General Materials Science Polymers and Plastics Metals and Alloys Electronic Materials

General Overview Works | | Locating Articles

Locating Books

To locate books on your topic, use the PEGASUS Online Catalog (http://pegasus.library.ucsb.edu/F/). As a starting point, use a keyword search on the likely terms. You are unlikely to find references to a specific composite material, but may be able to find useful books on classes of materials. If the more specific subject fails, browse the subject heading "Composite materials" itself. Call number ranges for materials science and engineering include:

• QC 176 - Solid state physics / Condensed matter physics
• TA 418.9 .C9 - "Special" materials, including composites

General Overview Works (see also: General Materials Science Reference Guide)

Analysis and Characterization of Composite Materials -- besides references below, see also: Analytical Chemistry Reference Guide

ASM Handbook (SEL Ref Area TA 459 .A53)
Though most of the multi-volume ASM Handbook series is devoted to metals and alloys, some of the more recent volumes have sections devoted to composites. Volume 21 is devoted entirely to composites, with chapters on Constituent Materials; Mechanics, Analysis and Design; Manufacturing; Post-processing and Assembly; Quality Assurance; Testing and Certification; ; Properties and Performace; Reliability and Repair; Failur Analysis; Recycling and Disposal; and Applications. All are by experts in the field and well-referenced.

The Composite Materials Handbook MIL 17 (SEL Ref AreaTA 418.9 .C6 C664 2002)
This five volume handbook compiles the MIL-KDBK-17 specifications for forming, properties, testing and characterization of polymer matrix somposites (three volumes), metal matrix composites (one volume) and ceramic matrix composites (one volume). These standards are extemely important in industrial applications.

Comprehensive Composite Materials (SEL Ref Area TA 418.9 .C6 C6344 2002)
This six voume collection of authoritative review articles is grouped by Basic Reinforcement Materials and Theory of Composites; Polymer Matrix Composites; Metal Matrix Composites; Carbon, Cement and Ceramic Matrix Composites; Testing and Non-Destructive Evaluation of Composites and Smart Composites; and Design and Applications of Composites. All the articles are thorough and well-referenced.

Encyclopedia of Advanced Materials (SEL Ref Area TA 404.3 .E53 1994)
This four volume work contains short articles on a whide variety of "advanced" materials, including ceramics, composites, polymers, specialty alloys and electronic amterials.

Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Technology (SEL Ref Area TA 402 .E53 2001)
This eleven volume work coers the entire range of materials science and engineering, including metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, electronic materials and biomaterials. Each article has a brief bibliography, and the set has a good subject index in Volume 11.

Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (SEL Ref Area TA 418.9 .S62 2002)
This two volume encyclopedia covers the field of "smart materials", a widely interdisciplinary examination of materials and structures which respond or adapt to surrounding condtions, such as piezoelectric ceramics, shape memory alloys, magnetorheological fluids and so on. The reviews here may be of interest to materials scientists and engineers working with almost any class of material. The articles have excellent biblipgraphies.

Handbook of Ceramic Composites (SEL Ref Area TA 418.9 .C6 H319 2005)
As the title suggests, this one-volume work is devoted to composites in which ceramics are both the matrix and the reinforcing fiber. It covers both oxide and non-oxide ceramics.

Handbook of Ceramics and Composites (SEL Ref Area TA 418.9 .C6 H32 1990)
This two-volume collection of review articles is divided into Synthesis and Properties, and Morphology and Stress Mechanics. (Additional volumes were announced, but none have been released.)

MRS Proceedings Library (http://uclibs.org/PID/97288)
MRS Proceedings Library contains over 400 volumes from 1998 to the present, of sumposium proceedings from the Materials Research Society, the momst important professional group in materials science and engineering. Symposia cover the gamut of topics of interest to materials scientists.

Locating Articles

Compendex Plus (http://uclibs.org/PID/1537)
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering abstracts database in the world. Covers over 2,600 international engineering journals, technical reports and conference proceedings. Each year more than 200,000 new abstracts are added. Compendex covers 1884 to present, with the UCe-Links feature for linking to full text journal articles.

SciFinder Scholar
SFS is an end-user oriented interface to the Chemical Abstracts, REGISTRY and CASREACT databases. Its databases cover the entire literature of chemistry, including journal articles, patents, conference papers and more, from 1900 to the present, by far the most comprehensive database of the chemical literature, and invaluable for the chemistry of materials. SciFinder Scholar is a client-server system, which requires installation of the SFS client on the terminal where you wish to use it. The client may be downloaded and installed on any Windows or Mac computer on the UCSB campus. In the UCSB Davidson Library, SciFinder is available at selected workstations in the Sciences-Engineering Library (2nd floor North).

Web of Science (Science Citation Index) (http://isiknowledge.com/wos/)
The Science Citation Index database in Web of Science covers key journals in all areas of science and engineering. It covers 1945-present, and for recent years has searchable abstracts. It also has searchable cited references, so you can track an older reference on, for instance, fluidized bed reactors, forward to more recent applications or to other related records. It has the UCe-Links feature for linking to full text journal articles.

Business Source Premier (http://uclibs.org/PID/8136)
Business Source Premier is an excellent source for the business side of the materials industries, including prices, markets and new products. It offers indexing and abstracts for the 350 most important scholarly business journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. The database includes searchable cited references for 1,205 journals. It also contains full text for 7,418 periodicals and other sources, including: Peer-Reviewed Journals, Trade Journals & General Business Magazines, Monographs, Country Economic Reports, Industry Reports & Yearbooks, Market Research Reports.