Advanced Search
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Advanced Search is designed to help you identify the best materials for your designs. As explained below the search possibilities are virtually limitless, this search allows you to combine constraints on mechanical or physical properties while also taking into account constraints on the chemical composition or on the sustainability of polymers. With all these possibilities, this search also requires its user to be alert, make sure to carefully follow this help page.
Advanced search can be accessed from Total Search's top Menu.
First, it is important to understand how to combine your search criteria. Every block represents one of your search criteria. They can be combined two ways, either as an AND condition by adding your criteria to a new line or by adding a new criteria on the same line as another to obtain an OR combination with the criteria already on that line. On the screenshot above, we are searching a tool steel under EN standard that has a hardness of either HB>170, HR>30 or HV>172.
Use the "Add Search Criteria" button to place a new criteria at the desired position. This will open a new popup window allowing you to configure your new criteria. The criteria are organized into five main categories:
The General Information tab permits the user to add criteria on the material:
designation, to find materials with the specified chain of characters in their designation
standard or producer
classification to search for materials in specific material groups. Important to note that for Polymer groups supplementary properties relating to fillers, flame retardants or recycled/bio content.
the free text field at the bottom allows the users to search through the material description to filter materials by their recommended application/industry, or welding class according to ISO/CR 15608 (2000).
It is important to understand how to use and define your criteria on mechanical and physical properties.
For these kind of properties, the user is asked to define:
the property, as in the 'Tensile Strength' example below, the user can choose if he is searching for the 'Ultimate Tensile Strength', the 'Tensile Strength at break', the 'Tensile Strength at 100% strain'...
The unit in which the user defines the criteria on this property
The type of definition of the property that the algorithm will consider and search through:
Min: the algorithm will search through materials having a UTS defined as a minimum. The UTS minimum should be between the min and the max defined in the next fields
Max: the algorithm searches through materials where the UTS is presented as a max value
Value: the algorithm searches through materials where UTS is an exact value
All: Any type of UTS will be considered
Min and Max are the values in between which the property should be contained Note: Leave empty if you simply want to filter out materials having a value for that property
T, Min, and Max: the unit and temperature range in which the property is searched