Civil and Construction Engineering

The design, construction, and maintenance of roads, bridges, dams, airports, sewerage systems, structural components of buildings, and railways and their impact on human and environmental health. Below are resources for finding scholarly articles, trade publications, datasets, patents, standards, and technical reports.

Key Databases

The best first place to go if you're looking for research materials in this discipline.

Compendex

Coverage: 1884-present. Subject areas include nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical ...

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international pro...

TRID - the TRIS and ITRD Database

TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's J...

Knovel scientific and engineering databases

A collection of full-text databases in the following subject areas: Adhesives Coatings Sealants & Inks, Aerospace & Radar Technology, Chemistr...

IEEE Xplore

Provides full-image access to the publications of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical ...

NC State University Safety Data Sheets (SDS) Management System

Collection of over 500,000 material safety data sheets for chemical products. MSDS commonly contain information on chemical and physical properties; h...

Patents

Derwent innovations index - The Derwent Innovations Index, available through the ISI Web of Knowledge interface, is a Web-access...

Standards

Intertek i2i - Includes full-text standards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as well as a s...
ASTM compass - The ASTM Digital Library contains 1,500+ books, 16,800+ Journal Articles, and more than 47,000+ pape...