MATERIALS
Materials World All types of materials and careers you could take.
Materials Science and Engineering Resource Center
How does Materials Science affects our lives? This site also contains basic information about different materials and an interactive 'ask the experts' question forum.
Materials Science and Technology Teachers' Workshop
This site consists of eight modules introducing teachers and students metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, composites, concrete and energy.
Microworlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials
An interactive tour of current research in the materials sciences at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, including information for teachers on how to use Microworlds in the classroom.
Imperial College Schools Science OnLine
A brief compendium of some educational sites of particular interest to scientists, including links to museums and online schools resources.
Design and Tech.com materials properties pages
A table of engineering material properties
Steel
The UK Steel Association's website
Corus is the largest steel company in Europe and is also a significant player in the aluminium industry. They also have an education website.
National Association of Steel Stockholders
Part of the UK Steel Industry Networking Project and a reference site for all things steel in the UK. NASS represents the interests of steel stockholders in the UK.
British Steel and MATTER have collaborated on the development of this new series of interactive educational software resources aimed at helping students understand the key
The Steel and Metals Industry National Training Organisation
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Other metals
A service of the worldwide copper and brass industries, including links to other
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Provides technical, scientific and educational information to ceramicists and the general public. The site incorporates the Ceramic Information Center and the Museum of Ceramics.
Ceramics and Industrial Minerals
A list of resources dedicated to the professional interested in ceramics and industrial minerals. It also includes searchable lists of links to other sites and resources.
Plastics and polymers
General Electric Plastics division information on properties, design and manufacture of plastic parts.
Plastics.com A good place to look for information about polymers
have a look at Polypedia (click on resources when you get there).
Teaching Plastics This is a portal to a variety of sources of information about plastics.
Plastic recycling A site dedicated to plastic recycling.
Site developed by the American Plastics Council, providing information for various groups such as consumers, teachers and students. It includes lists of resources and "backgrounders" about plastics, polymers, recycling etc at arange of educational levels.
Composites
Center for Composite Materials
The online home of the Composites Engineering and Education Center housed in the Composites Manufacturing Science Lab at the University of Delaware,USA. The page contains information about "what are ceramics?", the composite materials handbook and links to other sites.
Choose About Composites in the navigation bar for a wealth of links to sites dealing with many types of different composite materials.
Paper/wood
Woodbin This site has a database of 128 types of wood and the reference section has standard dimentions for furniture .
Woodzone Woodwork tools, wood properties tips tricks and jigs.
What's really in paper besides wood?
A colourful illustrated factsheet for students or the classroom wall which can be downloaded and printed.
Smart/new materials
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