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Knovel: Engineering innovation in record time

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

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Engineering a sustainable future with Knovel

Working in engineering? Achieve a faster time to market with reduced risk.

  • Save time: Knovel users report saving up to 180 hours per year searching for engineering and materials information. That is one month of work!

  • 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 upskilling on unfamiliar topics, technologies and processes

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Solve complex engineering problems, including Net Zero and sustainability challenges

For those educating and training the next generation of engineers, Knovel is the ideal partner for project-based learning.

Built on a foundation of engineering knowledge from leading publishers around the world, Knovel helps students and educators: 

  • Dive deep into critical engineering concepts & topics 

  • Explore material properties under various conditions  

  • Support courses and collaboration with top engineering content, including case studies, best practices, and interactive tools. 

  • Technical reference materials to support a project-based learning environment.

Learn more about Knovel for Higher Education.

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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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