Part of my motivation is to gain a better understanding of the materials rather than just shave things closer.
If I had a better idea of the potential spread, there are occasional situation where I might try to cherry pick based on the property. That's something I hadn't considered before...
CoryPad, the MIL-HDBK-5 (Now MMPDS-01) is great. I didn't know about it and it gives me a better sense of the various properties and how much confidence I can put in them.
Too bad they didn't throw in the weibell parameters but it makes sense given it's purpose.
Cheers!
I want to get an idea of how much variation there is in actual mechanical properties of metals (yield strengths most often) with specifications (6061-T6 or AISI 440, etc).
Is there an existing source for this type of information? For instance do metal mills compile and publish material test...
