Libraries: Engineering: Reference Data

Online Resources

Materials Project By computing properties of all known materials, the Materials Project aims to remove guesswork from materials design in a variety of applications. Experimental research can be targeted to the most promising compounds from computational data sets. Researchers will be able to data-mine scientific trends in materials properties. By providing materials researchers with the information they need to design better, the Materials Project aims to accelerate innovation in materials research.
NIST - Ceramics Data Portal
Hub for links to databases for high temperature superconducting materials (WebHTS), structural ceramics (WebSCD), property data summaries (WebPDS), and some specific material properties.
AKA Ceramics WebBook
Nature - Scientific Data
Scientific Data is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. Our primary article-type, the Data Descriptor, is designed to make your data more discoverable, interpretable and reusable.
NIST - Material Genome Initiative
A joint project between NIST and the MGI aiming to leverage computer modeling and simulation to reduce the cost and development time of materials discovery, optimization, and deployment.
NIST - Chemistry WebBook
Provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.
Other free standard reference data (SRD) from NIST
A catalog of NIST’s free, web interface SRD databases. NIST also has paid SRD products.

Safety Data

MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheets (AU Data plus)

NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) Workplace safety and health topics and a bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports

Property Data

Periodic Table on the Web
Find key data on all the elements. This site is most useful if you know the atomic number or symbol.
Corrosion Analysis Network
We don’t have a subscription giving access to the articles, but it’s a nice index of the ASM Handbooks (which we do have in print in Ready Reference). It also has a comprehensive dictionary.