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otal Materia is the most complete database of construction materials
mechanical, electrical, and magnetic properties (Fig. 2), thermal treatment
now available on the market, providing immediate access to
diagrams, metallography characteristics, and designations of all included
information obtained from 74 regulations of over 35 countries and more
materials (Fig. 3). The information available is categorised according to its
than 20 million property data in 26 languages for over 450,000 metals,
sources, from the indication of the reference regulations or specialised
polymers, ceramics, and composites. Updated through a constant content
texts to the use of specially developed tools to determine matches among
evolution process, Total Materia is organised into a series of modules
materials based on their mechanical, physical, and chemical properties.
configured to offer the ideal solution for all material data-related needs.
The data are also grouped and made comparable thanks to the “side by
Figure 1 shows a brief description of the included data.
side” display mode, enabling the users to make more accurate choices.
Total Metals
Problems
Total Metals is the core module of the Total Materia database, now the go-to
The problems that this kind of research normally entails include as follows:
consultation tool for structural designers to find the chemical, physical,
• research for equivalent materials and comparison among alternatives;
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