The listing of sites here does not imply endorsement by TWI, or that they are the best sources of information. The list is updated and links are checked periodically.

Materials

• General materials organisations
• Steels - organisations and companies
• Other metals
• • General
  • Aluminium
  • Chromium
  • Copper
  • Indium
  • Magnesium
  • Nickel
  • Tin
  • Titanium
  • Zinc
• Plastics & composites
• Ceramics
• Corrosion
• General

General Materials Organisations

• ASM International Contents listings are provided for Advanced Materials & Processes (AM&P) and Heat Treating Progress This site hosts the pages of The Thermal Spray Society [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• ASME is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' website. Their publication Mechanical Engineering is available in electronic form. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Materials Research Society Searchable archive and alert services for tables of contents from MRS Bulletin, Materials Research and the full text - free to members - of MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research are available. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Includes indexes and archive for JOM, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and B and Journal of Electronic Materials. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Holds tables of contents and abstracts for recent issues of twenty one journals. Includes the Science and Technology of Welding and Joining . [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The National Metals Technology Centre (NAMTEC) [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Intute: science, engineering and technology, (formerly PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway) Coverage includes materials science and engineering. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• AZoM- The A to Z of Materials Offers access to an e-journal AZojomo, Journal of Materials Online. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  

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Steels

• SteelNet is offered by the USA Steel Manufacturers Association. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The International Iron and Steel Institute offers Worldsteel. It includes steeluniversity. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The American Iron and Steel Institute's 'Steel Works' [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Steel Times International Merged with Steel Times in October 2001. [last looked at 6 November 2009]
  
  
• STEELynx [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The North American Steel Alliance [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The Iron & Steel Statistics Bureau [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• UK Steel [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Steel - UK This site has closed and now refers users to the sites of the constituent organisations. The links to those organisations work from this site at present. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Key to Metals [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Steel [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The Association for Iron and Steel Technology, Includes Steellinks.com. Also includes Steel Library. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Steel Recycling Institute [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• steelonthenet.com [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• About.com Metals Apply now's metals blog. Also includes Stainless Steel Appeal [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Industry Standards in Detail [Last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• All Metals & Forge [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Arcelor Mittal [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Corus [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Carpenter Technology Corp [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries, Eurofer. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• JFE Separate sections exist for JFE Steel Products, JFE Engineering Business, and Kawasaki Microelectronics Inc.. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Kobe Steel provide information in Japanese and English. Kobelco's Welding Handbook is available online in English and Japanese.Technical reports for their products are included on the site. Kobe Steel Engineering Reports are available as is Kobelco Technology Review. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Nippon Steel also in English Current issue of Nippon Steel News and back issues to 2001 are available. From the R&D page, Also Nippon Steel Technical Report [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Outokumpu It includes a Steel Professional Tool for material selection. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Posco offers information in Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Sandvik [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Sumitomo Metals site is in Japanese and English. Sumitomo Metals Times - both current and back numbers, are available. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Ternium [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• ThyssenKrupp [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  

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Other Metals

General

• Metal Bulletin Some information can only be obtained by accessing www.metalbulletin.com. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Metallurgy Resources on the Internet [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The Navy Metalworking Center [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• High Performance Alloys [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• AMM.com Includes the journal American Metal Market. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Rolled Alloys [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Duraloy Technologies, Inc. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Metalprices [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Casting Source Directory Online [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• About Metals [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• Key to Metals [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• metalinfo.com [last looked at 6 November 2009]
  
  

Aluminium

• The Aluminum Association Inc. [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• International Aluminium Institute [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The Aluminium Federation (ALFED) [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  
• The European Aluminium Association [last looked at on 6 November 2009]
  
  

Chromium

• International Chromium Development Association [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Copper

• Copper Development Association UK [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• The Copper Page It includes:
  • Innovations,
  [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Copperinfo [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Titanium

• Titanium Information Group [last looked at 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Titamium.org It includes:
  • Titanium Update Newsletter, [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
  
• Allegheny Technologies [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Zinc

• The International Zinc Association [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• American Zinc Association [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Nickel

• Nickel Development Institute offers Nickel magazine online. [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Vale Inco [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• The Nickel Page [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Magnesium

• The Magnesium Home Page [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• International Magnesium Association [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Magnesium.com [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Indium

• Indium Corporation of America [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

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Plastics and composites

• SMITHERS Rapra [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Plastics News on the Web [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• The Society of the Plastics Industry [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Society of Plastics Engineers [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• SCI.Polymers FAQ [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Applied Market Information Ltd [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Multimaterials [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• National Composites Network (NCN) [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• NetComposites [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Composites News International [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Composites World.com gives access to the journals High Performance Composites and Composites Technology, and their archives. It also includes the 2009 Sourcebook. [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• World Wide Composites Search Engine [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• MaterialSolutions Polymer Composites [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• The Plastics Web [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

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Ceramics

• The American Ceramic Society [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• CERAM Research Ltd [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  

Corrosion

• The Corrosion Information Server [last looked at on 9 November 2009]
  
  
• Corrosion Source is a corrosion portal. [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• Protective Coatings, Linings and Related Resources [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• NACE International Includes The NACE Corrosion Network and NACE Coatings Network [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• Marine Corrosion Forum [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• Corrosion Doctors [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• Corrosion-Club.com [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• Cost of Corrosion [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• European Federation of Corrosion [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• The Institute of Corrosion, [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  

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General

• Yahoo - Science: Engineering: Material Science [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• Materials [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• University of Virginia Science Libraries Materials & Engineering, Subject Research Guide [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  
• MatWeb [last looked at on 10 November 2009]
  
  

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