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Knovel – Engineering intelligence and tools to support success in a shifting landscape

Knovel is an engineering knowledge platform with curated content and data from 170+ trusted partners. Knovel’s AI-assisted search and interactive tools help users surface critical insights on materials, processes and systems to bring concepts to life.

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  • Thanks to Knovel, gone are the days when engineers had to pack dozens of personal notebooks for reference on overseas jobs. Knovel lets this engineer easily search online for needed data — no matter where.

    Turnover Engineer

  • Knovel Corrosion quickly gave us rankings for plastics in many different environments.... It also provided supporting case studies to help explain our conclusions. I had never seen all this within a single reference source before.

    Mel Esmacher

    Mel Esmacher, P.E.

    Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions

  • Unlike web search engines, Knovel always finds information from reliable technical resources…you don’t have to pore through…questionable options.

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    Patricia Kirkwood

    Associate Librarian at University of Arkansas, USA

  • Knovel’s information and interactive tools provide real value to students.

    Lim Kong Meng

    Lim Kong Meng

    Head Librarian at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Trusted content and tools to support engineering discovery

Why do engineers choose Knovel?

Engineers use Knovel’s content and tools to assess performance limits and validate how materials and systems perform under operating conditions. Built for engineers across industries and seniority levels, Knovel helps organizations select appropriate materials and parameters earlier, reducing design risk and ensuring concepts will function safely and reliably outside the lab.

How does Knovel keep engineering organizations on the leading edge?

Knovel supports 35+ engineering disciplines in one integrated environment, with calculation tools, performance data and AI-assisted traceable insights to help organizations scale engineering knowledge across the entire organization. Knovel users save up to 180 hours per year searching for engineering and materials data, with one manufacturer saving $187K per year using Knovel to decrease motor failure rates. Knovel supports faster, more confident decision-making at the point of need, with 95% of users saying Knovel is a trusted resource for upskilling on unfamiliar topics, technologies and processes.

How does Knovel support project-based learning?

Knovel helps students and educators quickly access trusted engineering knowledge, enabling learners to build a strong understanding of critical concepts and real-world applications. Its extensive collection of engineering references, case studies, best practices and interactive tools supports project-based learning by helping students research, analyze and solve complex engineering challenges. Educators can enrich coursework and foster collaboration by integrating Knovel’s authoritative technical content into assignments and projects.

What interactive data and tools are available in Knovel?

Knovel offers 2.5K+ equation worksheets and unit converters so engineers can make quick calculations without leaving the platform, with 150K+ conditional performance graphs for cross-material comparison under real-world conditions. Users transform static information into dynamic, actionable insights, with a simple data export function for users to bring this information off-platform quickly.

How does Knovel AI-enhanced search work?

Knovel AI-enhanced search delivers real-world, citable insights exclusively from Knovel’s vetted, curated engineering content.

Unlike traditional keyword search, Knovel AI-enhanced search understands the context of your question, retrieving and summarizing relevant results from deep within full-text technical references — everything from design handbooks and conference proceedings to databases — so you can get from question to answer in seconds, with clear citations and traceability.

Knovel delivers trusted and relevant engineering insights

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Comprehensive sources

Browse engineering content from 170+ providers covering 35+ subject areas and 230 subtopics.
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Essential knowledge

Access 14,000 curated resources from books to materials databases.
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Materials databases

Discover hundreds of thousands of materials and substances and more than 100 properties.
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Unique interactive tools

Choose from 20,000 tables, 150,000 graphs, 3,000 equations, steam calculators and a unit converter.
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Search and filter by concept, content type and author. Find answers in full-text reference materials.
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Corrosion prevention

Explore 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.
Industrial manufacturing leveraging data analytics

Engineer at a large enterprise industrial manufacturing company