REVIEW OF USEFUL WEB SITES AND SOFTWARE FOR ENGINEERS
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ARCHON ENGINEERING www.archoneng.com
Many suites of programmes for mechanical and civil engineers available to download as demo versions includes an excellent programmes for solving beam, torsion and frame problems. Lots of stuff on American steel sections but not for European standards. Also contains steam tables and much more. Well worth a visit. The software is easy to use.
Bishop Wisecarver http://www.bwc.com
BWC specializes in linear motion bearings, linear slides, rotary tables, systems and components
EFUNDA www.efunda.com
A great web site with lots of information and tools on most mechanical topics. Requires a registration fee.
ENGINEERING TOOL BOX www.engineerstoolbox.com
A free and useful web site with calculator tools for most engineering design problems.
MATHCAD http://www.mathcad.com/library
A library of useful free mathcad files for engineers includes beam stress and deflection, combustion and so on. Mathcad is a very useful tool for solving engineering problems when you want to change the parameters and see what happens.
A wealth of mathematical help is available here
Motion-controller.machinedesign.com http://www.motion-controller.machinedesign.com/
A new professionally designed site, which offers valuable
information on motion controllers, programmable logic controllers and other
types of controllers. The site is considered to be a valued resource for design
engineers.
ROYMECH www.roymech.co.uk
Contains lots of useful information, design data and tutorial material for mechanical engineers.
TPUB
Contains free tutorials on electrical engineering.
PNEUSIM http://www.pneusimpro.com/download/download.htm
also marketed as AUTOMATION STUDIO in the UK http://www.parker.com/training/autstud/purchase/purcha.htm
This is a very powerful design suite for pneumatics, hydraulics and electronic/electrical circuit design. It enables you to design circuits and produce drawings to the correct standards. It also allows you to simulate the design to see if it works. Contains picture libraries and explanations of the hardware. It can be interfaced to real hardware. Allows control circuit to be designed in American and European ladder logic symbols. It also allows control circuit design using Grafcet. Also has electronic logic circuit design. I have used this software widely and fully recommend it to fluid power control system designers.
FREE SOFTWARE SITES - NOT MUCH KNOWN ABOUT THEM.
http://www.pdhonline.org/resources/software.htm
I don't know a lot about this site but the software called Winbeam is free and I have found this very useful in solving beam problems.
http://www.freebyte.com/cad/ for CAD users
http://www.connel.com/freeware/ for fluid flow and thermodynamics.