Tips, resources, new materials information and software

Granta Material News—May 2009

The quarterly update for anyone who creates, uses, or manages materials information.

Contents
1.	Hints and Tips—GRANTA MI; CES Selector; ASME BPVC data
2.	Download Resources—Quick access to white papers and presentations, until May 31
3.	What's New?—Medical devices data; GRANTA MI 3.0
4.	News—Eco regulations; JEC Composites; MTI collaboration
5.	Next Granta Seminar—At AeroMat, Dayton, OH (Jun 8)
6.	Events—SIMULIA User Conference; SBAC DfE; AeroMat; ASME PVP; 14th MDMC Meeting
7.	Granta Partners—ASM International Online Databases

Hints and Tips

CES Selector Performance Index Finder New in Granta Material News—in each edition, we'll link to tips that help you get more from Granta software. In this edition:

Using homepages in GRANTA MI - A valuable tool for creating a materials information resource tailored to your company

CES Selector Performance Index Finder—A quick way to specify objectives during materials selection (pictured)

ASME BPV Code —How can you most easily access and use data from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code? This information is relevant in industries including nuclear power, chemical processing, and oil and gas.

Get the tips »

Download resources—white papers and presentations

Fast access until May 31

In each e-newsletter we'll provide a quick link to selected free resources on the Granta website. Follow the link, fill in your e-mail address, and you'll be sent the download information. In this edition:

White papers—'The Business Case for Materials Information Management' and 'Optimizing Materials Strategy—Can You Afford Not To?'

Presentation—'Advances in Materials Information Technology for Medical Product Development', recently presented at the Plastics in Medical Devices Conference in Brussels.

Quick link to these resources >>>

What's New?

Updated cardiovascular and orthopaedic materials data
The Cardiovascular Materials and Orthopaedic Materials data modules support in-depth application research in medical device design. Following recent updates, they now cover materials, coatings, and drugs used in over 7,200 FDA-approved orthopaedic devices and 3,300 cardiovascular devices, with comprehensive engineering property and biomedical response data. The Cardiovascular module now includes interventional devices such as catheters.
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Coming soon: GRANTA MI 3.0 with math functional data
We'll introduce GRANTA MI 3.0 in the next edition. One exciting development is math functional data, enabling users to define and store mathematical models that describe the variation of properties. This enables data interpolation and powerful searches and queries. Interested in GRANTA MI 3.0?
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News

EMIT Consortium addresses eco regulations
The second meeting of the Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium was held at Rolls-Royce in Derby, UK in April. The meeting discussed members' priorities relating to eco design and environmental regulations, particularly those governing restricted substances. The similarity of interests across diverse organizations was striking—a fact that helped to provide clear guidance for development of the Granta software used by Consortium members.
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Information management a key issue at JEC Composites
Granta again attended the JEC Composites conference in Paris in March, hosting a seminar at which Eurocopter was a speaker. Discussions at JEC confirmed growing interest in materials information technology among makers and users of composite materials.
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Granta/MTI collaboration enables new online resource
Granta has been collaborating with the Materials Technology Institute (MTI) to enable new data retrieval services for MTI members. Twenty-one MTI publications have now been made available in a searchable online format.
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Next Granta Seminar—Dayton, OH, June 8th

Materials data management is increasingly important for aerospace organizations seeking to: retain, control, and use corporate knowledge; make better materials decisions; and meet environmental regulations. A free seminar at AeroMat 2009 in Dayton, OH will cover these topics, describing the work of an industry collaboration with members including Boeing, GE—Aviation, Honeywell, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rolls-Royce, Granta Design and ASM International. You do not need to be an AeroMat delegate to attend.

Details and registration >>>

Current and Upcoming Events

Meet Granta at:

Date	Location	Event
May 19-21	London, UK	SIMULIA User Conference
May 20	Oxford, UK	SBAC Design for Environment Meeting
May 27	London, UK	Standards for Sustainable Materials Workshop
Jun 8	Dayton, OH	AeroMat
Jul 26-30	Prague, Czech Republic	ASME Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference
Aug 4-7	Seattle, WA	14th MDMC Meeting (hosted by Boeing)

Full events information »

Granta Partners—ASM Online Databases

ASM International is an authoritative voice on materials selection and processing for materials engineers and experts worldwide. ASM is the global professional society for materials science and engineering professionals, students, and research libraries. ASM Online Database products are reliable and comprehensive materials references and include ASM Handbooks Online, ASM Alloy Center, ASM Micrograph Center, ASM Failure Analysis Center, and databases of MEMS Materials and Medical Materials.

ASM is a strategic partner of Granta Design. Granta software powers ASM databases