Suppose that you want to find American (ASTM) stainless steels with the minimum yield stress 450 MPa and tensile stress between 650 and 750 MPa.

First you have to choose a search option. In order to select materials by mechanical property (property: Yield stress and Tensile stress ), you are using Advanced Search option.

To define the search criteria, you select USA (ASTM ) from the country/standard's pop-up list. To select stainless steels, you check Stainless steel check box.

In order to define yield stress and tensile stress values, you have to check Yield stress and Tensile stress criteria. Then fields for values became enabled, and you enter 450 for minimum yield stress value and 650 for minimum and 750 for maximum tensile stress value.

After you click Submit button, Key to Steel will find all ASTM stainless steels that fulfil given criteria and display them in the list.

Among hundreds ASTM stainless steels, search engine selects materials that fulfil given criteria in a few seconds! Imagine how much time you will need if you use books.

Selecting materials by value of mechanical property generally results in list of steel materials that satisfy given criteria. Depending on criteria you gave, this list can be quite large (up to 500 materials), so it is displayed in pages. By using navigation buttons, you can navigate through the pages, jump to the beginning or the end of the list or go to specific page.

If you are interested in properties of some specific material from the list, you can click on its designation. In order to find out how to view material properties, please refer to steps 4, 5 and 6 of Tour 1.