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CompendexEi Compendex (1884 to the present) provides international coverage of all fields of engineering including related areas of applied science, management, and energy.
Fields covered include: aeronautics; applied physics; bioengineering and medical equipment; chemical engineering; polymers and food technology; computers and robotics; civil, structural, control, electrical, electronics, and environmental engineering; energy technology and petroleum engineering; industrial engineering; information science; light and optical technology; marine engineering; mechanical, mining, and metallurgic engineering; materials science; nuclear engineering; and transportation.
Web of Science Core CollectionWeb Of Science Core Collection includes Citation Indexes for Arts & Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences
Provided by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the public version of HTEM DB features composition, structure, optical, and electrical properties of thin films synthesized using combinatorial methods. It currently contains 1,300+ sample libraries with 57,000+ thin film samples, across a wide range of materials (oxides, nitrides, sulfide, intermetallics).
KnovelKnovel contains over than 7,000 engineering-focused reference works and textbooks. Users can find data hidden in tables, graphs, and equations. Includes more than 120,000 interactive tables, equation plotters, charts and graphs that can be manipulated and exported into other tools such as Excel.
Alloy Finder: Alloy designations and trade names from around the world. Find key information, including composition, producer, tensile properties, and similar alloys. Materials Property Data: Mechanical properties, physical properties, and processing characteristics for most industrially important alloys. Find data plotted over a range of temperatures. Coatings Data: Detailed information for commercial coating processes. Search by trade name, manufacturer, process type, coating type, or key words. Corrosion Data: Corrosion information for specific alloys in specific environments. Search by alloy or environment. Data Sheets & Diagrams: Thousands of documents in PDF format, including material data sheets from Alloy Digest and other ASM publications; heat treating data sheets from the Heat Treater's Guides; and time-temperature curves, creep curves, and fatigue curves from ASM atlas publications. All organized by alloy and fully searchable.