Every struggled to get some good material data from the internet when trying generate accurate simulation models?
I found a great page in the SOLIDWORKS help files which has a few websites I didn’t even know about! See below…
Metals (general)• MatWebMatWeb provides material properties for a large variety of materials. MatWeb is freely available and does not require registration.
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JAHM Temperature Dependent Elastic & Thermal Properties Database. Provide easy access to over 2,400 materials and 18,000 sets of temperature dependent data for elastic modulus, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, S-N fatigue curves, stress-strain curves & more. Directly input data into SOLIDWORKS, COSMOSWorks, COSMOSDesignSTAR.
• Matereality The Matereality Global Data Center is a constantly expanding collaborative resource of material properties for engineering and other applications.
• SSAB:
SSAB Tunnplåt AB is the biggest steel sheet manufacturer in Scandinavia. their site contains datasheets and Stress/Strain curves.
Gas• NISTThis database contains transport and thermodynamic property data for the gases used in semiconductor processing.
• Gas Encyclopaedia:
This application enables data on many gas molecules to be accessed rapidly. You can search on a raw chemical formula, chemical name or UN transportation code.
Liquids• Exxon-MobilThis site makes it possible for you to search, view, print and download data sheets that describe ExxonMobil, Esso, Exxon and Mobil products..
• Chevron Product Data Sheets.
• SkydrolSkydrol requires one to register to view technical bulletins
Plastics
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GE PLASTICS Information about GE plastic materials, and also on-line Engineering and Design tools and calculators
• Material Data CenterThis system combines the data of all CAMPUS suppliers for online access of datasheets for many plastic materials, including stress/strain curves.
• PolymerFEMThis site is an independent forum for discussing constitutive models for polymers and their implementation in general purpose finite element programs.
Special Applications
• eFatigue (formerly Fatigue Calculator): This website contains fatigue calculators as well as fatigue material properties for many steels and aluminums.
• Omega: Emissivity of common materials: Metals and non-metals.
Craig Hudson