19^th International CODATA Conference
Category: Poster, Data Archiving

Structural Materials Database of MITS in NIMS (http://tsuge.nims.go.jp/)

M. FUJITA (FUJITA.Mitsutane@nims.go.jp), M. YAMASAKI, Y. XU, K. KIMURA, S. MATSUOKA and K. YAGI
National Institute for Science Materials, Materials Information and Technology, Japan

The rapid spread of the Internet has allowed for sharing of intellectual basic information in each material specialized field, facilitating the development of new values with tips of other field information. Our institute has offered creep and fatigue test results of structural materials as Data Sheets for many years, and have decided to make a database of them and offer as one of intellectual basic materials information on structural materials. The structural materials database consists of a text database and a fact database with URL of http://tuge.nims.go.jp/. The text database provides Creep and Fatigue Data Sheets and Material Strength Data Sheets Technical Documents in PDF that have been offered in print, while the fact database stores Creep and Fatigue Data Sheet tables as a database, enabling search and comparison of necessary data with cross search (simultaneous multiple search) of Data Sheets and materials. Data Sheets issued before have been published in PDF format on the Internet since April in 2003. A fact structural materials database based on Creep and Fatigue Data Sheets can be accessed from inside of the institute and the usability has been improved and defects have been fixed for release on the Internet in April 2004. In this paper, the database, database design concept and stored data contents are outlined, then searching methods of stored data are introduced in detail, followed by a few utilization examples using searched data. It is hoped that this database will improve materials credibility and will be used for making plant design standards.