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Knovel: Engineering innovation in record time

Get materials property data, technical references and interactive tools to accelerate R&D. Knovel helps you apply knowledge to provide sustainable solutions and prepare technical professionals for new engineering challenges.

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Engineering a sustainable future with Knovel

Get measurable results from a faster time to market and less business and compliance risk

  • Save time: Knovel users report saving up to 180 hours per year searching for engineering and materials information

  • Reduce risk: 83% of users report that Knovel helped them meet EHS and regulatory demands or key customer criteria

  • Optimize processes: Using information from Knovel, a manufacturer decreased motor failure rate by 5.5% saving $187,000 per year

  • Achieve Net Zero goals: 95% of users said Knovel is a trusted resource for becoming familiar with unfamiliar topics, technologies and processes

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Solve complex engineering problems, including Net Zero and sustainability challenges

  • Support the transition to renewables and carbon-neutral technologies, solutions and materials

  • Explore Knovel’s topic clusters of trending research on solar, wind, hydro, biomass and geothermal

  • Validate designs for prototyping, scale-up and manufacturing

  • Improve process engineering with technical references and material property search

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Knovel delivers trusted and relevant engineering insights with:

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Comprehensive sources

160 engineering content providers covering 35 subject areas and 230 subtopics.
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Essential knowledge

More than 12,000 resources curated from books to materials databases.
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Materials databases

Hundreds of thousands of materials and substances and more than 100 properties.
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Unique interactive tools

20,000 tables, 150,000 graphs, 3,000 equations, steam calculators and a unit converter.
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Text and numeric search designed for engineers

Search and filter by concept, content type and author. Analyze and locate answers in full-text reference materials.
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Corrosion prevention

Case studies, coatings, isocorrosion curves and millions of corrosion-related data points.

"Knovel has a very good collection of different reference books, research papers, articles, handbooks and manuals for a wide variety of engineering domains. Not only the collection, but how it provides that collection in terms of utility to a user."

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Knovel has engineering knowledge, tools and materials data to innovate quickly

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