Engineering References Posted Online

By Austin Weber

NORWICH, NY--Engineers can consult more than 70,000 pages of reference material on plastics and rubbers at a new Web site hosted by Knovel Corp.

Located at www.knovel.com, the site includes many major publications, including Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook, the Society of Plastics Engineer's ANTEC Conference Proceedings, the Plastics Design Library handbook series, CRC's Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, and Machinery's Handbook from Industrial Press.

The materials are fully searchable and cross-referenced. Special features include interactive tables, graphs and equations.

Besides the plastics and rubbers section, www.knovel.com contains similar reference sites for adhesives and sealants, chemicals, semiconductors and general engineering references.

Austin has been senior editor for ASSEMBLY Magazine since September 1999. He has more than 21 years of b-to-b publishing experience and has written about a wide variety of manufacturing and engineering topics. Austin is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

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