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103,000+ materials, every value traceable to its source — MIL-HDBK-5J, DOI-linked papers, official compliance lists. Ask in plain English, fit your own test curves, and export solver-ready cards to 11 CAE formats — or let your AI agent do it for you over MCP.

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What’s in the database

103,000+ materials, 84 property types, 4,500+ curves, 22 regulations screened. Pick a tab to drill in.

Materials across every engineering class

Metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and more — every property value linked back to the paper, handbook, or dataset it came from.

  • 103,000+
    Materials
  • 595,000+
    Properties
  • 4,500+
    Curves
  • 22
    Regulations
  • 11
    CAE formats
  • 53,800+
    Ceramics

    Oxides, nitrides, carbides, perovskites, bioceramics.

  • 24,300+
    Metals

    Steels, Ti, Ni superalloys, Al, Cu — temper variants included.

  • 23,800+
    Semiconductors

    Si, GaN, SiC, GaAs, InP and 23K+ compounds — band gaps labelled measured or computed, effective masses.

  • 716
    Polymers

    PEEK, LCP, Nylon, PTFE, ABS, PC, UHMWPE, PLA, PMMA + OpenPoly.

  • 104
    Composites

    CFRP, GFRP, aramid, sandwich, CMC, MMC — every MIL-HDBK-17 laminate and fabric system.

  • 22
    Biomedical

    CoCr, Ti-13Nb-13Zr, Nitinol, HA, bioglass, pyrolytic carbon.

Sources we cite

  • MIL-HDBK-5J— U.S. DoD aerospace metals handbook
  • MIL-HDBK-17— U.S. DoD composites handbook
  • REACH SVHC— EU restricted-substance list (ECHA)
  • Prop 65— California chemical disclosure list (OEHHA)
  • RoHS— EU electronics restricted-substance directive
  • ASTM standards— international test-method specifications
  • Peer-reviewed papers— with DOI links to the original article
  • Open datasets— openly licensed research databases, measured and computed values labelled

Click any property value in MatWorld to see the exact handbook page, figure, or paper it came from. Compliance results are checked against the official European and California registries — never guessed from element composition.

Model calibration · new

Your test curve in. A verdict out — then the card.

Upload stress-strain, creep, relaxation or DMA data. MatWorld fits Johnson-Cook, Ogden, Mooney-Rivlin, Chaboche, Prony or Hill — and tells you whether the fit holds up before it writes a single solver card. The kind of calibration that used to mean a consultant or a week of scripting, for $20 a month, unlimited.

model families
6
every fit gets a verdict
PASS · CAUTION · REJECT
verdict-gated decks
Abaqus · ANSYS
unlimited fits
$20/mo
  1. 01Upload the curve

    Drop, browse or paste CSV / TSV. Units are read from the header and can be corrected per channel — conversion happens once, in one place.

  2. 02State the conditions

    Temperature, strain rate and deformation mode per curve. A value in the file always wins over one typed in the workbench.

  3. 03Fit the model

    Johnson-Cook, Ogden, Mooney-Rivlin, Chaboche, Prony series or Hill. Candidate forms are ranked; the simplest adequate one is recommended.

  4. 04Read the verdict, take the card

    PASS, CAUTION or REJECT with findings. Abaqus and ANSYS decks carry the valid range and every warning in their banner.

Verdict
Ogden N=2 · uniaxial, planar
CAUTION
R²
0.998
RMSE
0.031 MPa
Points
142
  • Equibiaxial mode never tested — its predicted curve is drawn dashed and labelled
  • μ₂ is not determined by this data: the 95 % interval spans zero
  • Valid range: stretch 1.00 – 3.20 at 20 °C. Beyond it, the model is extrapolating
*HYPERELASTIC, OGDEN, N=2 — card ready, warnings in its banner

Illustrative fit. A REJECT gets no card, and a rejected fit costs you nothing.

A verdict, not just coefficients

Goodness of fit, identifiability, physical admissibility and the tested envelope — every fit is PASS, CAUTION or REJECT with named findings.

Decks only for fits that hold up

Native Abaqus and ANSYS cards where the syntax is verified and the data determines every field; a labelled coefficient block otherwise. Never an invented value.

Conditions are ground truth

Per-curve temperature, strain rate and deformation mode. Curves measured at different temperatures are never pooled into one parameter set with nothing to say so.

Setup is free with an account — upload, plot, correct units, choose a model. Running the fit is Pro, unlimited.

Ask in plain English

Describe the part. Get candidates with the numbers that justify them.

One sentence in. A ranked shortlist of engineering materials out — each with the value that met your bound, where it stands among the candidates, and the hottest temperature its data reaches.

high strength low density material for an aircraft bracket Ask AI
↑ high yield strength↓ low densityaircraft bracketaerospace
  • Ti-6Al-6V-2Sn STAmetal
    • Yield strength 1.1 GPa — top 15 % of 233 candidates
    • Density 4.54 g/cm³
    • Mentions “aerospace”
  • Ti-6Al-4V STAmetal
    • Yield strength 1.07 GPa — top 18 % of 233 candidates
    • Density 4.43 g/cm³
  • Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al STAmetal
    • Yield strength 1.1 GPa — top 15 % of 233 candidates
    • Density 4.65 g/cm³
    • Values inherited from Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al

Excerpt of a real answer — 233 candidates matched, top three shown. Pro · 20 searches a day.

Engineering materials only

Handbook alloys and tempers, polymers, laminates — not the 100,000 computed compounds, unless you ask for a computed property like band gap.

Reasons, not just a list

The value that met your bound, its rank among the candidates, how hot its data goes, and whether a number was inherited from the base alloy.

Nothing matches? It says what to drop

An empty answer lists which constraint to leave out and how many materials that unlocks. Every chip has an ×. Name an alloy and you get alternatives, with the alloy itself left out.

Deck-ready CAE export

Eleven formats. Native cards. Every number traceable.

Pick a solver to see the actual rendered card alongside the diagnostics MatWorld runs before download. Your agent renders the same card over MCP.

ti-6al-4v-plate.inpAbaqus · orthotropic + fatigue ref
Preview
904 bytes30 lines
1** MatWorld CAE Material Export — Abaqus (.inp)
2** Source: MIL-HDBK-5J · DOI 10.xxxx · Table 5.4.1.0(b)
3** Material: Ti-6Al-4V plate · Basis: A · Form: Plate
4**
5*MATERIAL, NAME=Ti_6Al_4V_Plate
6** Orthotropic elastic card from L/LT/ST orientation data.
7*ELASTIC, TYPE=ENGINEERING CONSTANTS
8 1.14e+11, 1.10e+11, 1.07e+11, 0.342, 0.342, 0.342, 4.40e+10, 4.40e+10,
9 4.40e+10
10*DENSITY
11 4430.,
12*PLASTIC
13 8.80e+08, 0.00
14 9.50e+08, 0.015
15 1.02e+09, 0.05
16*EXPANSION, TYPE=ISO
17 8.6e-06,
18*CONDUCTIVITY
19 6.7,
20** ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
21** Fatigue + fracture data
22** Fracture toughness K_IC: 75 MPa·√m
23** S-N curve (cycles → stress), 5 points:
24** Source: MIL-HDBK-5J · Figure 5.4.1.1.8(a)
25** 1.0e+03, 8.5e+08
26** 1.0e+04, 6.5e+08
27** 1.0e+05, 5.2e+08
28** 1.0e+06, 4.1e+08
29** 1.0e+07, 3.2e+08
30** ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Diagnostics3 issues
Red-flag checks the card is run through before download — unit mismatches, physically-impossible values, solver-specific pitfalls. Each entry shows the problem and a fix hint.
Warnings2
G_MISSING
Shear modulus G₁₂ derived from E and ν, not measured directly.
Pick a measured shear-modulus row in the source picker if available.
BASIS_MIX
Yield uses A-basis; ultimate uses S-basis. Mixed-basis card.
Switch ultimate to A-basis for design allowables consistency.
Notes1
FATIGUE_REF
S-N curve emitted as comment block (Abaqus has no native fatigue card).

Plus six more native formats

  • Abaqus.inp
  • LS-DYNA.k
  • ANSYS APDL.mac
  • Ansys EngData.xml
  • Nastran.bdf
  • Simcenter Nastran.dat
  • OptiStruct.fem
  • Radioss.rad
  • SolidWorks.sldmat
  • JSON.json
  • CSV.csv
Source picker

Every property lists candidates with confidence, DOI, conditions, and basis. Pick the row the deck actually uses.

Live rendered card

Toggle a property or change its source and the rendered deck updates instantly. What you see is what you download.

Diagnostics first

Unit mismatches, Poisson out of range, missing G in orthotropic, basis mixing — caught before you hit download.

Agent access

Bring your own agent.

MatWorld is a remote MCP server. Point Claude Code, Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or an agent built on the Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini API at one URL and it can search by designation, read a full datasheet with every source, pull a curve, compare materials, screen 22 regulations, ask in plain English, or export a solver-ready CAE card — the same data, the same citations, the same notice.

MCP endpoint
https://api.matworld.ai/mcp
Pro · Streamable HTTP
Claude Code
Personal key
  1. 1Generate a personal key in Settings → Agent access.
  2. 2Run the command in any terminal (it registers the server for every project).
  3. 3Ask Claude Code about a material — it calls MatWorld's tools as it works.

Snippets show mw_YOUR_KEY until you generate a key.

Run once
claude mcp add --transport http matworld https://api.matworld.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer mw_YOUR_KEY"
Or sign in instead of using a key
claude mcp add --transport http matworld https://api.matworld.ai/mcp   # then run /mcp inside Claude Code to sign in
  • Search
    search_materials

    By designation, UNS/AISI number, trade name, or keyword — fuzzy, with did-you-mean.

  • Ask in plain English
    find_materials

    A ranked shortlist with the numbers that justify each candidate. Same 20/day allowance as the search box.

  • Datasheet summary
    get_material

    Identity, composition, lineage, and a per-property index — range per statistical basis and per method (measured vs computed), counts, and the conditions on file; nothing averaged — sized for a context window.

  • Property values
    get_material_properties

    The full datasheet rows behind a key, paged and filtered by form, temper, orientation, temperature, basis or method — every field, every source.

  • Curve index
    list_material_curves

    What curves exist — type, conditions, point count, figure and source — without the points.

  • One curve
    get_property_curve

    Every point of one stress-strain, S-N fatigue, or property-vs-temperature curve, by id or conditions — never thinned.

  • Compare
    compare_materials

    Two to four materials side by side, keyed by property, each value with its unit and source.

  • Regulatory screening
    screen_compliance

    22 regulations as screened — RoHS, REACH SVHC, Prop 65, ITAR, and more — each status labelled with the published list it was validated against or as a rule-based estimate.

  • Property catalogue
    list_property_keys

    Every key with its category, SI unit, and the material classes it applies to.

  • Export formats
    list_export_formats

    The 11 CAE formats — what each card carries, which keys it reflects, and its default unit profile.

  • CAE card
    export_cae_card

    A solver-ready Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, Nastran, Radioss or SolidWorks card returned as file text, sources and statistical basis in the header, with the resolver's picks and red-flag diagnostics.

  • Pro, with your own key or sign-in

    Generate a personal key in Settings → Agent access, or let Claude sign in with your MatWorld account. Keys are personal and revocable.

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