Research Guides: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Materials Properties

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Sources for Materials Properties

ASM Handbooks Online
Authoritative source of extensive engineering and property data for materials of all types. It contains information on materials processes, properties, performance, and selection.
ASM Materials Platform for Data Science

This resource offers phase diagrams, including binary, ternary, and multinary diagrams. It also includes information on physical properties and associated detailed data sheets.
ASM Medical Materials Database
Peer-reviewed database providing properties and biological response data for the biomedical materials used in cardiovascular, orthopaedic, surgical, neurological, urological, and ENT medical device design.
Knovel
Knovel provides access to a wide range of handbooks and other reference works in engineering and applied sciences disciplines.
Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online
Provides access to critically evaluated phase diagrams for oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, borides, compound semiconductors and chalcogenides published in collaboration by the American Ceramic Society and NIST.
SciFinder

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Platform provides articles, patents, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations in chemistry and related disciplines. Search by substance name, structure, substructure, reaction, CAS registry number, molecular formula, organization, research topic, and author.

No guest access to this database is allowed. Access is limited to current CWRU affiliates only.
SpringerMaterials
Provides curated data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, including multiple material classes, property types, property data, and applications. Includes enhanced data visualization features display interactive crystal structures, data tables, and phase diagrams. Includes Landolt-Börnstein series.

Materials Platform for Data Science (MPDS)
A comprehensive, fully relational and compatible materials database system.

Technical standards also represents a good source for materials properties.

ASTM Compass

Full text access to active ASTM standards and related material from ASTM journals, symposia papers and STPs, manuals, monographs and data series.

Select books@KSL

CRC materials science and engineering handbook by James F. Shackelford, William Alexander
ISBN: 9781482216561

Publication Date: 2016
Handbook of Materials for Product Design by Charles A. Harper
ISBN: 0071354069

Publication Date: 2001

This handbook provides materials, data, information and guidelines for all those who design, manufacture and use mechanical and electromechanical products, as well as those who develop and market materials useful for these products. The work contains an extensive array of property and performance data, and explains fabrication tradeoffs.
Materials Selection Deskbook by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
ISBN: 9780815514008

Publication Date: 1996-12-31
CRC Handbook for Chemistry and Physics
Publication Date: latest issue