Material Property Literature ?

[Biggadike]

Our reference material on material properties is not comprehensive enough. I have been reccommended the set of two books:

Corrosion by LL Shreir

The set is £200. Can anyone either confirm the usefulness of the materials data in this book or reccomend a less expensive book to achieve the same goal.

We are looking for general data on:

Tensile / shear strengths
Stress strain curve
Yield points

For metals of all kinds

Any similar data on non-metals would always be useful.

 

[Speedy]

Try

http://www.matweb.com

It has the specs (general anyhow) on different materials

Speedy

 

Also try

http://euler9.tripod.com/.

By the way, here's a Browser Tip for Engineers I saw in another forum that's been helpful: "To kill pop-up windows and other annoyances on web sites, go into the options or preferences of your browser and turn off 'Javascript' (called 'Scripting' in IE). Since there's almost nothing worthwhile javascript is used for, in most cases you're just as well off without it. Once in a while, for a specific site, you'll have to turn it back on." I can atest to it does speed up some sites. Plus, browsing with "Images" turned off in your browser options also helps; you can then load images on pages only if you so choose.

 

[npackard]

By all means, go to MIL-HDBK-5. Extensive data on many metals.


Newton Roy Packard

 

[swertel]

To add to npackard's post, MIL-HDBK-5 can be found at

http://astimage.daps.dla.mil/online/new/

I would try downloading at night when network traffic is lighter. It's a big pdf file and I had to make many attempts before it came through completely. (I finally downloaded it at night.)

--Scott

 

Scott: No need to do that and encounter the huge download problem you cited. 40 MB is far too big for a single pdf file (and irresponsible on the part of the supplying organization). MIL-HBDK-5 is already included in the link I gave the poster above,

http://euler9.tripod.com/

. Try it and you'll see why I gave him that link instead; it already resolves the important download issue you cited, which could overload worldwide networks. Thanks for your link for other documents though!