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Technical content in Knovel

Knovel continually expands its global network of content providers

Users now have access to multidisciplinary engineering content from over 140 publishers, societies and professional associations, including:

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Technical references and premium content offerings cover a wide range of engineering expertise.

Find full text content, equations, materials and substances data, and interactive charts and graphs in 40+ subject areas, including:

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Electrical and power engineering

Electronics and semiconductors

Sustainable energy and development

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In-house and 3rd party industry and engineering experts develop unique database for Knovel. Property tables include physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 21,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. Other specialized databases include:

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Interactive tables, graphs and tools help Knovel users find material and substance property data for specific scenarios and conditions, including:

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  • 1,000 unique units for 90 properties in unit converter

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The Knovel steam calculators are some of the many built-in-tools within Knovel.

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10 major engineering challenges

From sagging infrastructure to climate change, get a quick overview of 10 major engineering challenges along with data points and links to additional information in Knovel.

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