MatWeb's searchable database of material properties includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.

http://www.matweb.com/

As an undergrad I used to use the following website, that tabulates some properties of many materials and alloys.

http://www.azom.com/

I agree regarding the lack of such databases, but especially for the examples that you give - the properties of these materials are vastly dependent of their processing methods and their fine details. In these cases review papers that are specific to a sub-field are usually the most productive source of information. 

Another route is to use the information supplied by vendors. Sigma Aldrich is a pretty good example, as they provide some properties on many of the materials that they sell.

MatWeb's searchable database of material properties includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.

http://www.matweb.com/

Many thanks.... actually MatWeb  seems to be the best source for material data  , .....but data for fibre reinforced polymers especially UD material with thermoplast polymer matrix system are still missing

I am Looking for material database too . but you can use

crystallography open database 

is  database for crystal structure but you can use this database for materials 

http://www.crystallography.net/

also one can use chem spider database http://www.chemspider.com/

Dear Michael Heine,

Dear Ali,

many thanks...

are there the mechanical porperties like:

Tensile strength [MPa]

Young's modulus [GPa]

Strain to failure [%]

Flexural Strength [MPa]

Flexural Modulus [GPa]

also included in your source?

Regards

Michael

Dear Michael Heine,

http://www.matweb.com/

http://www.makeitfrom.com/

Dear Michael Heine,

The best software (and actually associated methodology out there) is probably CES Material Selector (developed based on the approach of Ashby).

Although the actual software is not freeware, you can download a trial version:

http://ces-edupack-2013.software.informer.com/1.0/

In my opinion, these are an essential tool and knowledge for anybody dealing with material selection. The Ashby approach permits selecting out of all available materials the ones that optimize your driver criterion (criteria).

This discussion is a good example to show the uncertainties connected with wrong terminology. Unfortunately, many of researchers use term "materials" as a synonim to "substances", "phases" (physico-chemical, from thermodynamics!), but sometimes even "chemicals" and/or "crystals"... Everybody needs strictly understand that all the mentioned terms are very different to each other. In physics and chemistry there is no category such as "material", but for example the term "metal" is absolutely different in physics, chemistry and materials science (there are 3 different definitions!!!). Thus, it is very difficult to give you any advice! If you are writing about "materials" exactly, I can agree that Ashby's approach is the best. The textbooks on materials science by Ashby with co-authors are the best as well; especially in the contrast with some others, which contain only the repetitions from solid state physics, general chemistry, but nothing on materials design (!?)... Although the main problem/subject/topic/theme in materials science is how to create a novel material... certainly, on the basis of imported knowledge on the properties of individual phases/substances from physics and chemistry... Thus, the correct terminology is extremely important in everyday activities of all the researchers!

Dear Igor,

you are absolutely right ! Thanks for this comment.

As a "technical chemist" I use the term "material" in the context of the "element carbon" in form of "carbon filaments" imbedded in a "matrix (binder) material" of polymers (macromolecules), carbon (carbonized,/graphitized polymers) or ceramic (carbonized/graphitized polymer reacted with liquid silicon).

Anyway.... Ashby's approach seems to be the best...  I will look if "my materials" are included......

Also Mehid is right, regarding to the content of matweb.com ... The problem seems to be the combination of different materials forming a new material with new properties..... so the complete overview of all possible "material combinations" is still missing.

With best regards

Michael

Dear Prof M Heine,

Thank you for your prompt response. If you are looking for data on properties of elemental carbon materials, including carbon filaments, I hope the chapter "Carbon (Graphene/Graphite)" in the 1st volume of my UHTM book recently published will be useful for you. For inquiry: my main research interests are connected with ceramics containing carbon (graphite) and graphene-like boron nitride.

....yes..... just found the chapter in your publication list... an enormous collection of facts about "Carbon" ... I just send the link to my former colleagues at SGL CARBON...

Regards

Michael

OK. For carbon materials my preferencies are to go from carbon-carbon to carbon-carbide materials. Are SGL thinking about this way in technical progress?

Yes... one of our "Innovations" is the "Carbon-Ceramic-Material" for the brake-disc in Porsche cars.....

http://www.sglgroup.com/cms/international/products/product-groups/cc/carbon-ceramic-brake-disks/index.html?__locale=en

Hi Michael, if you want to know for new materials, specially on design area, I use te on-line database called "Materia".....link: http://materia.nl/

Saludos desde México!!!

Dear all;

this attached handbook is very useful for polymer researchers. Regards

Dear Abdelkader,...

that's great... regarding all matrix polymers for fibre reinforced composites

Dear Michael,

Follow somepapers  and book about the use of exotic materials in construction (manufacture of bricks,mortar and concrete) and in ceramics.

Vegetable fibres:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222525081_The_effect_of_different_mineral_additions_and_synthetic_fiber_contents_on_properties_of_cement_based_composites?ev=prf_pub

And more on the RG page of Prof. Vahan Agopyan (USP, São Paulo, Brazil);

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/V_Agopyan/contributions

Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials. Proceedings of the Second International RILEM Symposium. Edited by H.S. Sobral. Routledge – 1990.

http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780412392504/

Rice straw in civil construction:

http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P114893/low-cost-housing-waste-rice-straw-construction-panels?lang=en

http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/2847/1/Dissertation_Morsy_2011.pdf

http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2000/10/01/cimento-nobre-com-casca-de-arroz/

Bamboo in civil construction:

http://sistemas.ib.unicamp.br/be310/index.php/be310/article/viewFile/177/130

http://bambusc.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/tratamentobambu_vitor_hugo_marcal.pdf

Sugarcane bagasse in civil construction and ceramics:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41465494_Use_of_Brazilian_sugarcane_bagasse_ash_in_concrete_as_sand_replacement

http://www.formatex.info/microscopy5/book/1085-1092.pdf

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-86212011000200014

Some papers are in Portuguese. I can collaborate if You want.

All the best,

Vanessa

Article The effect of different mineral additions and synthetic fibe...

Article Use of Brazilian sugarcane bagasse ash in concrete as sand replacement

From what I have seen I would second Frederic Coghe's reply. I assume CES Aero Selector from Granta (http://www.grantadesign.com/products/ces/overview.htm) could work for you. It includes several databases that you could also search individually I believe. However the list price of one of them http://books.sae.org/r-422.set3/ is already 760 $. These images might help to determine if it is worth the investment:

http://www.grantadesign.com/images/dataproducts/Firehole-strength-v-modulus.jpg

http://www.grantadesign.com/images/mi7/CMH-17.jpg

http://www.grantadesign.com/images/dataproducts/mmpds-mi4-large.jpg

On the low cost end I struggle to remember the name of an open source program that I used a few years back to do simple beam or sandwich type stuff. I could imagine it can "plug in" other materials data and do some screening at least. Somehow the name "Compositor" is stuck in my head but it gives me no good results. If I come up with something I will post it.

Here is one more that deals with less conventional material aspects (embodied energy and ecologic footprint).

http://www.circularecology.com/embodied-energy-and-carbon-footprint-database.html#.VNCU-y6gv_s

You need to sign up for it, but I think it is worth the few key strokes. I believe last update was in 2011 and it is not exhaustive, but in my perspective still immensely useful.

The data related with the creep behaviour for those materials which used under high temperatures could be found on the website of: http://smds.nims.go.jp/creep/index_en.html. 

However, this is the part of great general datebase: http://mits.nims.go.jp/index_en.html

Dear Qihua Xu, dear Igor,..

These are very good links  ..... especially the Topic "Polymer Properties Prediction" ... for which I am also searching...

Best regards

Michael

Dear Michael, I used this database for crystallographic/structural inquires for the last couple years, but wonder now a lot as it is much wider than I have proposed before.

I think that you can follow databases such data of materials through specialized journals materials which is reached.

Citrination (https://www.citrination.com) could definitely help you find the materials and chemistry related data you are looking for. Currently the site houses over 3 million data points, making it the largest open access database for the world's materials data.

We’re a company but we don’t charge for published/public data access, and we’ve grown the platform with the help of our users. A huge amount of the data on the site is crowd sourced and this means that the platform grows as people continue to contribute data, either from their own research or from other sources. 

Contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions, or data to contribute — it all helps the community, from a few property values to gigabytes of research output. Incidentally, for those of you with public data access mandates from funding agencies, our platform is a straightforward and free means to meet data sharing requirements: see http://citrination.com/datamanagement.

To Ms. Jo Hill: You can use all the data on C, W, Re, Os, Ta, Mo, Nb and Ir from the chapters of the 1st Volume of my UHTM book, wich are available on my ResearchGate account.

Regards,

Igor

You can find a list here :

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Materials#Usefull_links

This also the homepage of the materials project on Wikidata.

Wikidata is the open database that provide wikipedia's infoboxs data and many other websites like DBWiki.

https://matmatch.com has a good selection of materials and their data is checked by material scientists

Dear Mechael I think (engineering materials by Callister) is useful for your question.

Dear Michael i think there is online comparison between steel types if u need.