Materials Data Bases
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A meeting was held at Fairfield Glade, Term., Nov. 5 - 1 1 that will change the course of materials science in the next decade. The National Academy of Science and the National Bureau of Standards sponsored an international gathering to determine how to develop an international system for computerized materials data bases. Your representative at the meeting was the 1982 president of the Materials Research Society, Clyde J.M. Northrup, Jr. One of the results of the meeting was the recommendation that a central "gateway" system be established in the United States and sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, with compatible systems being organized in Japan and Europe. Management of technical information is already affecting industry where the productivity of materials scientists who daily use the computers has increased remarkably, while the total number of people being employed has been reduced.
Users of information in a computer format are increasing rapidly. For example, data bases are used for
surveying materials properties much as one would thumb through a reference manual, and also for initial selection of materials. Final materials selection based on optimization due to critical materials properties, availability, cost and so on may also be done using computer data bases. Materials information may be fed directly to a computer-aided-design (CAD) or computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) facility. Having complete, current information readily available allows materials scientists to identify gaps in knowledge, to suggest alternative materials, to reduce redundancy in measurements and to plan "smart" experiments - that is, to make the critical measurements using statistical techniques to identify sensitive parameters and to permit interpolation elsewhere. Materials scientists emerging today no longer use computers only to record and plot data: [Continued on Page 2]
MATERIALS DATA BASE INFORMATION Which reference manuals do you utilize most frequently? What materials' properties importance to you? Chemical Electrical Mechanical Other (please specify)
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What materials' properties are of importance? Chemical Electrical Mechanical Other (please specify) What formats are most helpful to you? Tables Graphs On-line digitized data Other (please specify)
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What do you use the information for? Theoretical calculations Systems modeling Materials selection Design specifications Other (please specify) Do you have a computer data base that you find useful? If yes, please identify
secondary Other comments (Optional) Name Address Telephone Return this questionnaire to: Clyde J.M. Northrup, Jr. Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM 87185
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H.J. LEAMY IS 1983 MRS PRESIDENT Bell Laboratories materials scientist is the Society's
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