The goal of SPACEMATDB is to provide a reliable data source for material properties for agencies and organizations present in the space community.
The materials contained in SPACEMATDB reflects the materials used on manned spacecrafts, launchers, satellites, payloads and ground support equipment.
Materials included are:
- Bulk materials such as metals and alloys and non-metallic materials such as glasses, polymers, ceramics and composites
- Filler materials such as solder alloys
- paints, lacquers, varnishes, adhesives, lubricants and coatings
- Pottings, sealants and foams
- Films, foils, tapes, inks
Properties included are:
- Precautions
- Processing and Assembly
- Vendor information
- Experience and equivalance
- Physical properties
- Elastic properties
- Optical properties
- Electrical properties
- Thermal properties
- Environmental properties relevant for space use, such as corrosion (general, stress, bimetallic), atomic oxygen, machinebility, welding, outgassing, offgassing/toxicity, flammability, UV radiation
- Fluid compatibility
- Special recommendations and lessons learned
- European Space Materials Database (ESMDB - not available outside ESA) at ESA/ESTEC
- The ESMAT website database section
- Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) data and its predecessor MIL-HDBK-5
- MAPTIS (Materials and Processing Information System) at NASA
- Aluminum Association (AA)
- CDA (Copper Development Association).
- MATWEB
- Datasheets from manufacturers
- ASM Metals Handbook
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physiscs
- Materials and Processes for Spacecraft and High Reliability Applications, by Barrie D. Dunn
- Laboratory testing at ESTEC or at ESA recognized testhouses (stress corrosion, galvanic corrosion, thermal cycling, outgassing, offgassing/toxicity, flammability, UVradiation, atomic oxygen, optical, etc)
- Published acticles by the author on atomic oxygen, stress corrosion and bimetallic corrosion
- Materials & Processes and SME Courses given by the author
- Open literature