Structures: and Strength of Materials:
- Shigley, J. E., and Mischke, C. R., Mechanical Engineering Design, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1989.
- Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain
Thermal
- Incropera, F. P., DeWitt, D. P., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 4th Edition, Wiley, 1996.
- Steinberg, D. S., Cooling Techniques for Electronic Equipment, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1991.
- White, F. M., "Fluid Mechanics," McGraw-Hill, for friction-factor and internal-flow fundamentals.
- 1. Churchill, S. W., and H. H. S. Chu, “Correlating Equations for Laminar and Turbulent Free Convection From a Vertical Plate,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 18, No. 11, 1975, pp. 1323–1329.
- Bar-Cohen, A., and Rohsenow, W. M., “Thermally Optimum Spacing of Vertical Natural Convection Cooled Parallel Plates,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 106, 1984, pp. 116–123.
- Elenbaas, W., “Heat Dissipation by Free Convection,” Philips Research Reports, Vol. 3, 1948, pp. 1–24.
- Idelchik — Handbook of Hydraulic Resistance.
- ACCA Manual J – Standard for residential HVAC load calculations
- ASHRAE Handbook – Fundamentals – Solar factors, material thermal properties
- DOE Guidelines – Insulation R values, window performance
-NREL Research – Sol air temperature and roof reflectivity data
Dynamics and Vibration:
- Thomson, W. T., Theory of Vibrations with Applications, 4th Edition
- Adaptive Fehlberg Runge–Kutta (RKF45) method
- Gillespie, T. D. (1992). Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics. SAE. Reference for sprung mass equations and coordinate systems.
- Meirovitch, Elements of Vibration Analysis
- Blevins, Formulas for Natural Frequency and Mode Shape
Rubber Mechanics:
- Edited by Alan N. Gent, Engineering with Rubber - How to Design Rubber Components, 2nd Edition, Hanser, 2001.
- Gent, A. N., & Lindley, P. B. (1959). The compression of bonded rubber blocks. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 173(1), 111–122.
- Lindley, P. B. (1970). Load–deflection relationships for bonded rubber blocks. Journal of Strain Analysis, 5(3), 190–195.
FEM:
- Cook, R. D., Malkus, D. S., Plesha, M. E., and Witt, R. J., Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, 4th ed., Wiley, 2001
- Bathe, K. J., Finite Element Procedures.
