For an engineer, to select any material, it is sometimes difficult to sacrifice some property. In this connection, I would like to know how to select the best material among two, among three or among alloys.
A standard comparator should give the comparison between materials and their properties. Please refer to the graph.
Actually I didn't understood your question completelly. But for you choose one material over another you have to take in mind the application of the material. Additionally there are lots of materials treatments that can be done on the material to improve their properties according to the application needs.
Polyana Radi & Nikos Athanasopoulos
Thank you for the interesting ideas.
Engineers feel difficulty in material selection. Hence do we have COMPARATOR just like Calculator, Convertor, instead of book.
I don`t know if you know this site: http://www.tribology-abc.com/calculators/
They have a lot of calculators that can help you to compare and select materials.
Additionally, before you choose one material is very important to know where it will be used, for how long and in what conditions. All this can influence in your choice.
Regards Poly...
I have used something called the CES database which seems to be what you are after. I am not sure if this is a free resource but it I'd extremely useful in material selection based on material properties addend will give you the desired output you have requested. There I'd a learning curve, however it is not terribly difficult to figure out
What I use to compare properties between materials is the Matweb database (www.matweb.com). Various properties of commercial materials can be found there, often referring to the supplier data sheet.
It is also possible there to search for up to three properties at once, inside a range of values, and look for matching materials.
Best regards,
André
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