Databases/Article Indexes for Materials Engineering


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

 
Provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments.
Recommended resource
ASM Handbooks
Current

3 concurrent users maximum
Reference information on metals and materials: data and guidance on properties, processing, performance, selection, analysis, and applications.
 
Comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics.
 
Subset of the Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA) database that focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.
 
The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965.
 
Source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering.
Recommended resource
Contains the majority of the leading materials science databases, and includes over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports.
 
On-line database for solder properties emphasizing new lead-free solders.
 
Contains transport and thermodynamic property data for the gases used in semiconductor processing.
Recommended resource
Ei Compendex
1884-current
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database with over eight million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings, dating from 1884 forward.
Recommended resource
Citations it materials engineering, taken from over 1,300 journals, dissertatinos, government reports and conference proceedings.
Recommended resource
Search environment for Ei Compendex and Ei Inspec, also covering engineering websites, CRC Handbooks, patents, and industry standards.
Recommended resource
ENGnetBASE
1990-current
Collection of over 320 engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Contains the subsets:CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE, ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE, MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE, and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE
Recommended resource
INSPEC
1896-current
Bibliographic database providing access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.
 
Database of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
 
Material ConneXion
1997-current
This database covers over 1,400 materials and processes from a wide range of industries.
 
Industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.
Recommended resource
MATERIALSnetBASE includes over 75 fully-searchable ebooks on the topics of Materials Science, Packaging, and all aspects of Engineering.
 
MatWeb
Dates vary

Open Access
Database that provides property data on over 13,000 engineering materials.
Recommended resource
METADEX
1966-current
Provides information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. Sources include over 2,000 journals, patents, government reports, conference proceedings, and books.
 
Property Data Summaries are topical collections of property values derived from surveys of published data. Thermal, mechanical, structural, and chemical properties are included in the collections.
 
NIST Property Data Summaries for Fracture Toughness provide fracture toughness data on numerous materials.
 
The NIST Oxide Glasses Collection has property data on borate base glasses, germanate base glasses, phosphate base glasses and silicate base glasses.
 
Provides evaluated materials property data for a wide range of advanced ceramics known variously as structural ceramics, engineering ceramics, and fine ceramics.
 
NIST Visible Cement Dataset
Current

Open Access
The NIST Visible Cement Dataset consists of data on cement pastes with w/c ratios between 0.3 and 0.45 that were prepared and viewed after various hydration times.
 
Resulting from a critical evaluation of the published literature, the database contains over 22,000 line positions, chemical shifts, doublet splittings, and energy separations of photoelectron and Auger-electron lines.
Recommended resource
CRC Encyclopedias and Handbooks covering polymer information .
 
Referex Engineering is a collection of over 300 engineering eBooks in 3 distinct collections.
 
Society of Plastics Engineers Publications
Dates vary

Requires password from Restricted Access Resources page.
Provides access to full text of Society of Plastics Engineers publications. (Drexel subscribes to Polymer Composites and Polymer Engineering and Science.)
 
WELDASEARCH
1967-current
Containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and related topics.

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