Textile micrographs from The University of Birmingham

Textile micrographs from School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham have been released  under Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Click here to see the micrograps in Flickr

Sports Materials collection has been released

A series which comprises lecture, images and videos on a variety of sports materials and their properties has been released by School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham under Creative Commons Attribution licence.


Click below to access the resources at file-share sites

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Durability of Materials from CES EduPack 2009 Released

We have just released the entire Cambridge Engineering Selector EduPack 2009 Durability package. It is available for download as a single document from Scribd or SlideShare.

The performances of materials in the following types of environment are covered:

• Water & aqueous environments
• Acids & alkalis
• Fuels, oils & solvents
• Halogens & gases
• Built environments
• Flammability
• Thermal environments

Cambridge Engineering Selector

We're working with Granta Design to release the materials data and science notes from the Durability section of CES EduPack 2009. The performances of materials in the following types of environment are covered:

• Water & aqueous environments
• Acids & alkakis
• Fuels, oils & solvents
• Halogens & gases
• Built environments
• Flammability
• Thermal environments

As well as adding the content to our website, we also aim to make the material available for download as ZIP and PDF.

Over 750 micrographs added from DoITPoMS micrograph library

We've released a load of micrographs from DoITPoMs at the University of Cambridge.
They look great at Flickr and you can easily create a customised slideshow on your own site. Take a look at the one we've created on our own site.

Hierarchical subject tree for Materials Science & Engineering

One of the key outputs from the CORE-Materials project is to develop a hierarchical subject tree to help users browse and filter their search results.

As an interdisciplinary discipline, developing a genuine 'taxonomy' for Materials is perhaps unrealistic, but we can develop a useful set of hierarchical 'facets' through which users from all types of background might wish to access our resources. Therefore we will enable users to search by materials types, processes, applications, scientific concepts, plus a range of other 'top-level' categories, as follows:

• Science approaches
• Materials
• Processes
• Applications
• Product Forms
• Properties
• Testing, analysis & experimentation
• Scale
• Others (Sustainability, Management, Design, Health & Safety...)
  

At the project outset, we asked our partners to contribute to the process of building our subject tree and would like to thank them for their good ideas. Naturally we have been able to incorporate some and not others, but we have now come up with a good starting point - one which we can use to classify the resources we currently have.

The subject tree is unlikely ever to be 'final' and will be able to alter it as the project progresses.

Click here to check out the current tree.

Materials images at Flickr

The project team has adapted a Flickr upload API to allow us to batch upload images and metadata to the Flickr website.

You can now view the CORE-Materials images at Flickr.