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Dear colleague,

Some twenty plus years ago I was writing my master’s thesis entitled “Contribution to practical determining of corrosion fatigue of steel with particular reference to offshore technology units”. My paper among other things contains fatigue and corrosion fatigue test results for microalloyed steel TStE355 FG36T. 
I would just like to reflect on how much effort and material resources I had to engage in order to provide  high-quality specimens appropriate for low-cycle fatigue tests and to obtain relevant results at the prestigious institute. I had to involve a number of people in two major Croatian shipyards for procuring, cutting and machining the specimens in the yards’ tools processing workshops and to do much travelling in order to attend the tests. On top of that, it was quite an undertaking to find the literature in the field at the time. I am not sure that much has changed since then so I welcome your initiative to institute a web page containing a collection of scientifically and professionally relevant test results regarding different materials. I am sure it will spare many the effort of undergoing the lengthy, demanding and expensive procedures of determining advanced characteristics of industrial materials. 
 
Lidija Runko Luttenberger

From 21.11. to 24.11. MATDAT.COM initiative was presented at FH Joanneum, Graz and Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria). Assist. Prof. Basan Robert, Prof. D. Sc. Rubeša Domagoj and doctoral student Marohnić Tea visited FH Joanneum where MATDAT.COM was presented to Fachhochschule staff and to Formula Student Racing teams of FH Joanneum and Technical University in Graz.

At Montanuniversität Leoben, Department of Product Engineering (at Lehrstuhl für Allgemeinen Maschinenbau) meeting and presentation of current and future was hosted by Dr. mont. Michael Stoschka. Potential cooperation was discussed and already valuable new material data on magnesium alloys are being prepared for inclusion in MATDAT.COM database.

  

Main motivation for starting the MATDAT.COM project was the idea to organize material data which I obtained from literature/experiments during work on my thesis, and to make them available to other members of the technical community and to help them save their time, money and effort. All material data included in the database are from relevant, well-documented sources (journal and conference articles, dissertations, technical reports, handbooks). As this information is already published, and since I wanted to make a contribution to the community, I have decided to keep basic access to ALL THE DATA in MATDAT.COM database COMPLETELY FREE to students and young researchers through MATDAT EDU option.

MATDAT.COM is a result of much enthusiasm and countless hours of research and hard work - and all of this without any external financial support. If you feel that efforts behind MATDAT.COM are worthwhile and find provided data/information to be useful, please consider supporting us in more substantial manner. You can do so either by registering as a MATDAT PRO user (click here for more details on options and advantages), or if you are representing a company, by sponsoring our project (contact us directly for more details and sponsor plans/options). I would also greatly appreciate you spreading the information about MATDAT.COM among your colleagues and partners as well as putting the link to MATDAT.COM onto your website.

In the name of MATDAT.COM team, I thank you in advance for your support!