Speedy access to info on alloys

An ASM International product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Feb 20, 2003

For the first time, ASM International's vast data and information sources on the world's alloys can be quickly and easily searched in minutes, instead of hours.

For the first time, ASM International's vast data and information sources on the world's alloys can be quickly and easily searched in minutes, instead of hours.

The newly introduced ASM Alloy Centre Online makes it easy to "drill down" through numerous ASM data and information sources to find the exact information needed about a particular alloy.

"It would take hours to search through the Internet or your library to find this kind of information", said ASM President Dr Donald R Muzyka, FASM.

"It would also take more than $5000 worth of equivalent ASM reference products to offer the same breadth of coverage".

For example, a search for information on 304 stainless steel will quickly locate: more than 10 datasheets from Alloy Digest, Engineering Properties of Steels and Heat Treater's Guide; more than 25 fatigue, creep, and time-temperature curves from ASM atlas publications; corrosion data for more than 25 different environments; and materials property values for more than 240 different property/material conditions at temperatures ranging from 20 to 980C.

The ASM Alloy Centre Online contains five content areas.

Users can search across all areas at once to quickly target relevant information (without wading through the irrelevant hits caused by a general Internet search), or they can search or browse each content area individually.

Design or mechanical engineers with a peripheral involvement in materials will also benefit.

For example: An engineer has a blueprint for a part that's been out of production for 10 years that specifies it be made from a particular trade-named alloy.

Through the ASM Alloy Centre Online, the engineer can quickly find out: the alloy's strength and composition; if the alloy is still available, the name of the manufacturer; if the alloy is obsolete, a similar alloy can be found; the alloy's heat treating "recipe"; and much more.

Individual subscriptions to the ASM Alloy Centre Online start at $179 per year for ASM members.

Affordable site licences are also available.

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