Total Metals is by far the world’s largest database for metallic material properties and sits at the core of the Total Materia product offering serving as the gateway for an unparalleled collection of datasets and modules which serve the global engineering community.

Focused on providing standard metal properties data, Total Metals provides you with a staggering 15,000,000 property records for over 350,000 materials from 74 countries/standards.

From chemical compositions, cross-reference tables, mechanical and physical properties at room, elevated and subzero temperatures, to additional information such as heat treatment diagrams, metallography and machinability, Total Metals gives you the highest quality and reliability of the only certified database of its kind in the industry.

• Finding precise traceable standard and proprietary material property data for polymers, composites and ceramics
• Simultaneous comparison of different kinds of metallic and non-metallic materials and finding the best alternatives
• Sourcing rare advanced properties information for FEA/CAE calculations including stress-strain and fatigue data
• Inefficiency of working from multiple resources covering metals and non-metals and across multiple business departments and disciplines

The PolyPLUS module from Total Materia offers non-metallic material properties data for thousands of plastic, ceramic and composite materials covering a wide range of standard and advanced property information.

DataPLUS is a supplementary module providing data subsets covering joints information, lubricants and coolants, material dimensions, tribology, and coatings for thousands of metallic and non-metallic materials.

In synergy with the primary materials databases, Total Metals and PolyPLUS, DataPLUS supports and supplements key industrial application decisions by helping make accurate and considered choices relating to material selection and usage.

• Material and consumables selection for successful welding operations
• Finding coatings and their properties related to materials in one unified platform
• Communicating between engineering and purchasing avoiding potential errors

DataPLUS covers a wide range of information within its five data sub-sets acting as a critical additional resource for the process of material selection. Completely integrated, DataPLUS connects seamlessly to other key information such as chemical composition, tables of equivalent materials, mechanical and physical properties, which means viewing the bigger picture is effortless.

Find critical welding information such as mechanical properties at joint, information for thousands of material combinations, base material property data, consumable characteristics and references to related welding methodologies.

A must have to bridge the gap between engineering and purchasing, the dimensions and tolerances dataset allows you to find information relating to specific material measurements, their permissible variations along with useful information about packaging formats.

• Finding material data essential for advanced engineering calculations and computer aided engineering (CAE) and finite element analysis (FEA) simulations
• Obtaining stress-strain curves at various temperatures and at different strain rates
• Comparing fatigue properties of different origins for example American, European and Asian materials

Extended Range offers a unique collection of advanced property data for use in critical design activities and brings effortless efficiency to the extremely time consuming task of finding reliable material property information, specifically for advanced linear and non-linear calculations. To achieve this, experimental data from over 3,000 references and documents, dating from 90 years ago to the most recent sources, have been processed and included using a proprietary data acquisition methodology.

Unique collection of more than 150,000 stress-strain curves for calculations in the plastic range covers more than 20,000 materials, with various heat treatments, working temperatures and strain rates, from quasistatic to over 1,000 1/s. Both true and engineering stress curves are given, with a possibility to interpolate curves for user-defined temperatures and strain rates.

Based on Total Materia cross-reference tables and properties of equivalent materials, Extended Range provides estimates for stress-strain curves for additional 90,000 materials and cyclic properties for another 80,000. Although estimates cannot completely replace experimental data, they provide a valuable starting point for further research and calculations.

Forming limit and high-strain curves at a range of temperatures, for simulating forging, drawing and other forming operations. Fracture mechanics K1C, KC, crack growth and Paris law parameters are presented, with the corresponding graph of crack growth. Creep data including yield stress and creep rupture strength at different temperatures with the calculation of Larsen-Miller parameter and remaining life of the component.

Enviro is an additional data module providing corrosion data, irradiation, weathering and aging information for thousands of metallic and non-metallic materials.

In synergy with the primary material databases, Total Metals and PolyPLUS, Enviro aids material application decisions by providing a comprehensive understanding of material behavior under the influence of a range of diversified impactful effects.

• Risks and potential catastrophic failures in exploitation
• Predicting product life under a range of influences deriving from external effects
• Ever increasing quality and performance challenges during product useful life
• Supporting innovation by aiding complete and thorough material selection decisions

Delivering a range of aging (time) information in a combination of one or more additional factors, which cause a general degradation of material integrity and can therefore have a serious impact on the long-term application of the materials. Covered additional factors in combination with time include thermal, chemical, and weathering effects.

A key dataset for the nuclear industry, irradiation data provides a clear relationship between exposure time, radiation dosage and the subsequent effects on the material properties. Irradiation of materials can cause potentially catastrophic failures relating to swelling, creep and general embrittlement of the exposed materials.

The Compliance module provides a single source of information about global regulations for materials and substances.

Comprising inventory lists, hazard identification, transport information and much more for thousands of materials, Compliance includes international regulations, such as REACH and RoHS, national, from the US to Japan, China and Russia, as well as specialized regulations such as food industry, water and sanitation, all integrated and searchable with material properties information.

• Costly penalties and exclusion from the market resulting from noncompliance
• Deciphering complex and diversified rules in different countries and even regions
• Staying up-to-date with ever changing rules and regulations
• Huge time and effort needed to gather information and apply it to the product line

The Compliance module offers a global view of up-to-date regulations for both materials and substances, allowing businesses to keep pace with the ever increasing pressure for companies to meet their legal obligations related to their products, components and the materials they use. Compliance helps in a variety of complex tasks such as the design and launch of a new product, converting an existing portfolio to meet regulatory guidelines, approving vendors, controlling materials and more.

Owing to its coverage of international and national regulations, Compliance provides a possibility to quickly assess a globally created product, that can for example be designed in the US, with componentry from Japan, manufactured in China using local raw materials and substances, which will be eventually exported to the EU.

• Checking for suitable suppliers quickly according to a range of selected materials
• Coping with price volatility and meeting tight deadlines for material delivery by searching for alternatives in lower cost countries
• Finding material suppliers in other countries to help coordinate global purchasing activities
• Improving communication between engineering, purchasing and manufacturing

Maximizing efficiency between engineering and purchasing cross functional activities, Suppliers gives excellent time saving opportunities through three main benefits.

Browse, search and quickly find material suppliers from all over the world. Suppliers and their materials are precisely related with designations and standards, in combination with Total Metals and PolyPLUS which holds over 450,000 materials, with an interface as simple as point-and-click

SmartComp, the add on module from Total Materia allows intelligent metal identification by chemical composition obtained from spectrometer or other analytical sources.

Using a patented algorithm, SmartComp can eliminate a huge amount of working time dedicated to research and increases efficiency and functionality of laboratory and inspection business activities by allowing fast, multi-criteria material identification. Owing to integration with Total Materia, material property details and cross referencing to be viewed in seconds, and compared with other alternatives if needed.

• Carrying out complex material identification studies from only chemical composition as a highly experienced expert would do
• Reducing thousands of working hours spent in research to identify materials and this is even sometimes in vain
• Driving down high costs associated with acquiring specifications and standards
• Reducing rework and scrap in the manufacturing environment through effective root cause identification of plant process errors

The new generation of spectrometers can generate a material chemical analysis in seconds but how do you then identify the other critical information of the material like grade, origin, and its properties and equivalents. Starting from simply entered chemical analysis as obtained from spectrometer, by using patented algrorithm SmartComp is able to identify matching grades from all over the world, thus dramatically increasing the usability of analysis and overall functionality of laboratory.

Design to “think” like an expert, SmartComp carries out what would be extremely time consuming manual research work in a matter of seconds. Using a patented algorithm SmartComp ensures that problematic trap elements, impurities and oligoelements do not bog the identification process down and focuses the search on the most important elements to the user.

In addition to Standard identification mode, advanced Expert mode offers a possibility to set the relative importance to each alloying element individually, thus obtaining matching alloys that may be more appropriate for the specific problem. Reference Materials is another module, which facilitates finding materials for calibrating spectrometers.

Identifying matching materials may only be one part of the story. Total Materia allows direct access from the material match list to material properties, thus providing a possibility for a more detailed comparison of candidate materials and their properties, including side-by-side comparison option, and combining comparison of chemical composition and mechanical properties using cross-reference tables and SmartCross² module.

eXporter is the add on module which primarily helps bridge the gap between data source and computer aided engineering (CAE) software. Whether you want to move data from Total Materia directly to CAE software or simply export in excel or .xml, eXporter provides all the functionality you need. In a form of a simple 3-step wizard, it provides multiple-format data exports in mere seconds.

• Finding advanced property data for linear and non-linear CAE calculations in a ready to use solver format
• Importing data from source into CAE software without the need for additional data processing, copying, pasting and retyping
• Obtaining reliable inputs for material properties thus avoiding dangerous and costly errors
• Carrying out multiple and repeatable design tasks in the most efficient way possible

Please Note: A maximum of 100 data set exports allowable per concurrent license for the duration of the subscription. All previous exports are available at any time and re-usable an unlimited number of times for the duration of the subscription.

Total Materia offers the world’s largest material properties resource and it is now possible to select data from a collection of over 450,000 materials and 20,000,000 property records, and then export ready for use in the next step of the design process.

Maximizing the potential of eXporter, the entire Total Metals and Extended Range data sets can be used to find the properties of interest. With full access to the largest international cross-reference tables and comparison functionalities, the full power of Total Materia can be utilized to ensure the selection of data for export is backed up by informed and traceable decisions.

In today’s ever increasing pace of changing international standards, and producer specifications, Tracker is the Total Materia answer to your critical material traceability needs.

Providing a bulletin style monthly notification service, Tracker allows, not only important standard and material updates to be monitored but even gives information on exactly what has changed within the material, whether it be updates to important properties data, addition of completely new datasets, or a simple update to version details.

• Ensuring the most up to date information available is being used for the job
• Providing reliable, accurate and traceable information to other areas of the business
• Staying up to date with material, standard and specification changes
• Contributing to company best practices relating to information usage, configuration management and overall process quality

Tracker is the add on module from Total Materia which deals with the important challenge of how to make sure that the data being used is the most up to date and therefore most reliable information available. See exactly what has changed within the database and when from standard version updates to property data changes.

To cope with ever faster speed of changes on standards and producers' specifications, updates and upgrades to Total Materia are made every single month, making it the most up to date resource available. By providing exact reports of amendments made on the database month by month, Tracker allows informed, reliable and confident decisions to be made for the entire business.

• Repeatable, time-consuming access to frequently used materials
• Regular requirement to keep up to date with standard revision changes
• Comparing multiple materials and their properties on a single screen
• Tedious creation of reports for justifying material selection decisions

Material Console allows Total Materia’s >450,000 materials to be distilled into multiple lists from any search results obtained in Total Materia. It is possible to compile lists from different areas of the database and then save the lists as labelled libraries of materials that can be accessed again and again. Tagging, using the favorites function allows quick access to frequently used materials and notification of any changes, which means lightning fast reaction to the ever changing scope of international materials and related information. Material selection tools include Material Comparison, Property and Graph Comparison, Analytics for visual analysis and comparison of materials and much more.

Make personalized lists of materials based on the entire resource of more than 450,000 materials in Total Materia for multiple projects. Through the intuitive search possibilities available it is possible to create and save lists of materials according to different profiles and applications. Whether you would like to have instant access to all European and Japanese structural steels with particular durability and strength parameters or to make a list of automotive aluminums with stress strain data at high strain rates for repeated simulations, Material Console can help!

Once personalized lists are in place they can be resused, and redacted versions shared with colleagues or as part of project validation content in the form of an export or detailed report. Key aspects of a new material validation for example, can be supported by selecting critical aspects of the material profile including composition, basic strength, non-linear behavior, corrosion resistance, and compliance to regulations worldwide, all from Total Materia.