Features Added to MatWeb

One item to note

• If you are a registered member of MatWeb.com, you will need to log in separately to this new site to access the registered features. Your UserID and password from the original site will work for this new site.

General Searching

• You should notice speedier searches on our new web site.
• Review any of the last 25 materials you visited, without searching again, by clicking on the “Recently Viewed Materials” link at the top of the page. (Registered users only)
• The steps needed to add materials to your folder for comparison or FEA export have been simplified. You no longer need to 'Save' the checked boxes and 'Compare' now requires a single button.
• On the advanced search, previous search criteria can be edited on directly, instead of being deleted.

Advanced Search   (only available to registered users)

• Searchable property groups are now available on many of our property search screens. These groups allow you to search a group of properties as if they were a single property. They appear atop the drop down list of properties. This new feature will be especially useful when you want to simultaneously search related properties such as the various tests for service temperature (Deflection Temperature under various loads; short-term; continuous, etc.).
• Properties are now organized into hierarchical folders (similar to folders in Windows File explorer). You should be able to find a property more intuitively.
• As an alternative to finding properties through the hierarchy, you can type in the name of the property of interest. We have all properties available in the database available through this feature, even properties that are too specialized to appear in the hierarchy.
• You will see a count of materials that have data available for each property in the list to help you determine how many results to expect. Upon selecting a property, you will see the total range of data points in MatWeb.
• MatWeb now supports searching formal conditional property data. This is one of the highlights of the new version. You can search for materials that meet your required values at non-ambient conditions (such as strength at elevated temperature or dielectric constant at a given frequency). After selecting a property for searching, a drop down list of available conditions appear if conditional data is available.
  Currently, only a limited set of conditional data has been entered into the system, but adding new conditional data will be a MatWeb priority over the next year. We hope that you experiment with this feature of the new site and give us feedback. Here is the current list of conditional data available:
  • Specific Heat Capacity, Electrical Resistivity, and Thermal Conductivity at elevated temperature for several hundred carbon steel data sheets
  • Tensile Strength (Ultimate and Yield) and Elongation at low and high temperatures for many Carpenter Steel data sheets
  • Many DuPont Engineering Polymers data sheets have conditional data for a variety of tensile and electrical properties, including dielectric constants and dissipation factors at various temperatures and frequencies.
  • Creep Rupture Strength at elevated temperature of various steels
  • All fatigue strength data points have been updated to account for the number of cycles
• Conditional property data can be searched using “interpolation” techniques. You can view a list of possible results that do not have a data point within the conditions you entered but nearby data points suggest a potential fit.
• The metal composition list is now contained with the rest of the properties.
• You may exclude 'Discontinued Materials' using the 'Search Option' tab. Be aware that materials labeled 'Discontinued' may still be available through distribution channels or through special order.

Material Data Sheets

• Data Sheets have been re-designed to have a clean, new look.
• Data sheets can be exported to PDF format, providing a professional layout, regardless of the browser you use.
• Data sheets can now show formal conditions for many existing properties. (Currently, only a limited set of conditional data has been entered into the system, but new conditional data will be added and converted from the old format over the next year).
• At the top of the data sheet, the categories for the material are more complete. Also, the categories are now links to a category search for similar materials.
• Fresh Material Overviews have been created. These are special type of data sheets that provide an overview for many of our popular material categories.

Compare Materials

• Material Components now show up on the Compare Data Sheet.
• Property graphs in the compare sheet now show min, max and average values.

Property Search:

• You may select any Units of Measure available for a property from the same page. Previously MatWeb used separate pages for Metric and common US units of measure.
• Searchable property groups are now available on many of our property search screens. These groups allow you to search a group of properties as if they were a single property. They appear in the drop down list of properties in a different color. This new feature will be especially useful when you want to simultaneously search related properties such as the various tests for service temperature (Deflection Temperature under various loads; short-term; continuous, etc.).

Category (formerly "Material Type") Search:

• Material Categories are now organized into hierarchical folders (similar to folders in Windows File explorer). You should be able to find a material category more intuitively.
• Material Categories can also be found by searching, instead of browsing long pull down lists.
• Polymer Groups have been converted to formal Material Categories. MatWeb now has over 1150 material categories.

Future Features

• Searching and viewing material property data in multiple languages.