Do you want manuals, standards or handbooks..... 13

[bristolmick]

We've seen many threads on this forum from people looking for various standards, manuals or handbooks that are in the public domain (i.e ok to freely distribute), but can be difficult to find sometimes.

As a design engineer with only little experience, I frequently need help with the basics and I'm sure a lot of engineers who go to college and don't serve an apprenticeship would know what I mean. "Zeus book? What's a Zeus Book?"

Why not have a thread solely for posting links to PDF's that others might like?

Here's some from my favourites list to start. Apologies for the emphasis on fasteners, but guess what I've been struggling with lately?

1) NASA Fastener Design Manual (9.4Mb)

http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/1990/RP-1228.pdf

2) SPS Fastener References (Misc. Sizes)

http://www.spstech.com/aero/prod_lit/index.html

3) Acceptable Methods, Techniques, and Practices - Aircraft Inspection and Repair. (Broken into chapters, Misc. Sizes)

http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulator...99C827DB9BAAC81B86256B4500596C4E?OpenDocument

4) Maryland Metrics - Source of many handy charts and tables.

http://www.marylandmetric.com/techindex.htm

5) The Mil-HDBK 5 replacement (75Mb)

http://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/ar-mmpds-01.pdf

6) Fastener Technical Info (Bossard Company, Misc. Files)

http://www.bossard.com/techinfo/en/index.html

7) Introduction To Composite Materials (1.73Mb)

http://www.structsource.com/pdf/composite.pdf

 

[IRstuff]

Perhaps you can make that into a FAQ for this forum

TTFN

 

[Sparweb]

A FAQ is the best place for the info, but this thread will also serve as a handy place to make contributions, too.

A few of my most-used links:

ASSIST:

http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/fsc_quicksearch.cfm

NACA Reports:

http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/

NASA Reports:

http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS

Accident Reports:

http://aviation-safety.net/

Hardware suppliers:

http://www.mmaero.com/prodlist.cfm,

and

http://hi-shear.com/fastenermain.htm,

Bristolmick, you also need this one:

http://www.dfcis.com/

I've got hundreds of bookmarks. If you want, I could export my links to a file for you.

Steve

"Simplicate, and add more lightness" - Bill Stout
Steven Fahey, CET

 

[Wittenborn]

I think this is a great subject, and a priceless resource. Good topic bristol!

SparWeb, good additions to the list.

Regards,
Grant
Aerospace Engineer

 

[Paskenell]

Many of the above free fastener related downloads, with many more, are linked to from

http://www.marfas.com/technicalcont.shtml.

Emphasis of site seems to be on stainless steel but might be of assistance to someone.

 

[ferdo]

Hi all,

Add these olds FAQ's

http://www.eng-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=16&sfid=602

http://www.eng-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=666&sfid=601

Regards
Fernando