Tour 5: Searching by special search criteria

In equipment design, structural engineering and engineering analysis, professionals often need to have some specific information on material properties such as heat treatment details, properties on low and elevated temperatures, and physical properties. Fast access to this information is usually essential to complete engineering tasks successfully and efficiently, and this is exactly what KEY to METALS gives you.


Step 1: Choosing a search option

In this example, suppose that you want to review physical properties of all steels specified by SAE standard (US Society for Automotive Engineering).

To select materials by special properties, you are using Special Search check boxes in the Advanced Search module.

Step 2: Defining search criteria

To define the search criteria, all you have to do is to select USA/SAE from the Country/Standard pop-up list and to check Physical Properties box, situated in the Special Search group in the lower part of the window.

Defining search criteria


When you click Submit button, KEY to METALS search engine will select all SAE steels which contain physical properties and display them in the list, in a few seconds.

Selecting a material from the list of the results

Step 3: Viewing material properties

To view properties of some specific material from the list, click on its designation, and follow the usual procedure, as described in Tour 1.

Step 4: Getting physical properties

To get physical properties from within Material Properties window, simply click Physical Properties link, positioned in the More Properties group. As a result, you can see all available properties for selected material.

Getting physical properties

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