TABLE OF CONTENTS 
This appendix tells you where to look to find information, both structured and unstructured, for material attributes. The sources, broadly speaking, are of three sorts: hard-copy, software, and the Internet. The hard-copy documents listed below will be found in most engineering libraries. The computer data-bases are harder to find: the supplier is listed, with address and contact number, as well as the hardware required to run the data-base. Internet sites are easy to find but can be frustrating to use.
Section D.2 catalogs information sources for families and classes of material, with a brief commentary where appropriate. Section D.3 provides a starting point for reading on processes. Section D.4 lists software for materials and process data, information and selection. Sections D.5 and D.6 list additional Internet sites on which materials information can be found
Few hard-copy data-sources span the full spectrum of materials and properties. Six that, in different ways, attempt to do so are listed below.
Materials selector ( 1997) Materials Engineering, Special Issue. Penton Publishing, Cleveland, OH, USA. Tabular data for a broad range of metals, ceramics, polymers and composites, updated annually. Basic reference work.
Chapman and Hall, Materials Selector ( 1996) edited by N.A. Waterman and M.F. Ashby. Chapman and Hall, London, UK. A 3-volume compilation of data for all materials, with selection and design guide. Basic reference work.
ASM Engineered Materials Reference Book, 2nd Edition ( 1994) editor: Bauccio, M.L.,
