Idemat

The Idemat is a database belonging to the Program Design for Sustainability, School of Industrial Design, Engineering and Production in Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. The interface is an admirable simplicity and efficiency, with information on some properties of materials and environmental impact of products. The Idemat portal for materials selection contains important data about mechanical, physical and thermal properties. The database also has useful information in terms of environmental impact of materials from extraction of raw materials to the material ready to be sold (based on the Eco -indicator 95, EPS and “Exercy”). The information is very simply organized and the “interface” is very easy to use. The research is conducted through a common ”trunk” that is representative of the various families of materials, which then branches per class, member till achieve the technical information. The complete version of this digital tool is paid, and is sold as software on a CD, with a professional and educational version.

The database can be compatible with the program of environmental assessment of products – Eco Scan.

The database has a good interaction design; a simple and clean design makes it unique. It has exceptional use efficiency, it’s easy access to information, and possible to copy data and images to use in other programs, you may create your own database with IDEMAT editor.

Method of use: The access to this online database is free. But the complete software version costs around 416€ (educational license) or 761€ (professional license).

Materials in the database: The database contains about 400 materials. The material families included are: -Ceramics; -fibers; -glass; -polymers; -laminates; -ferrous metals; -non-ferrous metals; -wood and miscellaneous.

http://www.idemat.nl/Onl_db/od_frame.htm