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Supporting information for 2009 news
CES EduPack 2009
"New CES EduPack 2009 Supports Worldwide Community of Engineering Educators"
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Materials property chart from CES EduPack 2009. The charts provide a highly visual and engaging means to teach and learn about materials property. This chart studies shows key mechanical and environmental properties for 100 representative materials.
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Updated Eco Audit Tool, enables identification of the energy and CO2 emissions from a product at different phases in its lifecycle, supporting teaching of eco design. Now includes analysis of the energy/CO2 impact of disposal, recycling or re-use at the end of the product's life.
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Supporting information for 2008 news
CES Selector 2008
"New international Consortium targets the environmental impact of materials"
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CES Selector 2008 - A designer is investigating materials for a design application that uses a panel in bending The graph shows the trade-off between embodied energy and mass for this application. Such plots enable a designer to quantify and visualize, engineering, economic, and environmental properties.
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A new Eco Audit Tool enables identification of the energy emissions from a product at different phases in its lifecycle, based on the materials and processes used.
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EMIT Consortium
"New international Consortium targets the environmental impact of materials"
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The product lifecycle - at each stage resources and energy are used and unwanted emissions and waste created. Much of this impact is due to materials and their processing. One focus for the EMIT Consortium is to analyze this impact and help to reduce it.
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An eco audit - identifying the energy emissions from a product at different phases in its lifecycle, based on the materials and processes used. The Consortium develops software to generate such information.
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GRANTA MI 2.0
"GRANTA MI 2.0 delivers next-generation materials information management"
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Viewing materials information in the enhanced GRANTA MI version 2.0 browser-based user interface. The user is navigating a database of laboratory test data (left pane) and viewing numerical, text, and graphical data for an aluminum alloy (right panel).
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CES EduPack 2008
"Granta releases CES EduPack 2008, extending support for materials education"
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CES EduPack showing a man-made material from the Bio Materials database. The datasheet shows an image of the material in use, descriptive text, and property data. A 'science note' has been opened - this provides in-depth information on the science behind a specific materials property.
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Plotting materials properties in CES EduPack. In this case, Young's Modulus is being plotted against Tensile Strength for the natural materials in the new Bio Materials Database. Such plots offer a simple-to-understand and highly visual representation of materials properties.
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Supporting information for 2007 news
Materials for Medical Devices database
"Design resource extends support for Orthopaedic and Cardiovascular Devices"
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Screenshot from the Materials for Medical Devices database showing the easy-to-use web user interface.
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MDMC August Meeting - Boeing and Northrop Grumman Join
"Boeing and Northrop-Grumman join the Material Data Management Consortium"
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The GRANTA MI software displays creep data for an aerospace alloy from the latest MMPDS-02 database. The database is an authoritative source of aerospace design data. The graph is typical of the materials property data stored and analyzed by MDMC members.
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CES Selector 2007
"CES Selector 2007 a Major Step Forward for Materials Decision-Making"
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A plot of materials prices for a panel of specified stiffness for all materials in the MaterialUniverse data module (with selected materials labelled). An updated pricing model ensures that relative price data is available and up-to-date for the entire range of engineering materials with CES Selector. The graph shows how this can be combined with materials property data to study "cost per unit of function".
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Trading off economic and technical factors in thermoplastic elastomer selection. Here, a rubber part needs to have softness and adequate recovery after deformation. Materials failing these criteria are greyed out. Then the part must be as cheap as possible for a given strength and be as resistant as possible to tearing. The chart shows the trade-off between these factors: the cheapest option is a PVC elastomer. However, a part with twice the tear strength can be made for a 50% higher price from a TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane).
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Updated user interface showing improved display of selection charts, including material family envelopes - click for a larger image.
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GRANTA MI 1.3
"GRANTA MI 1.3 - New Tools Enhance the Business Impact of Materials Information"
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GRANTA MI displays creep data for an aerospace alloy from the latest MMPDS-02 database. The database is an authoritative source of aerospace design data. The graph is typical of the materials property data stored and analyzed in GRANTA MI. Display and manipulation of such data has been improved in version 1.3.
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CES EduPack 2007
"Granta Releases CES EduPack 2007 for Materials and Manufacturing Education"
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CES EduPack software displays a materials property chart - an engaging means of comapring materials properties and making selections. This tool has been enhanced in CES EduPack 2007 through the ability to rank materials against selection criteria (bottom left of screen) enabling more complete analysis.
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A screenshot from the newly extended Architecture Edition shows how CES EduPack links information about materials (listed in the tree view, left, with lightweight structural concrete highlighted) with property data (listed on the main screen), information materials applications (e.g., picture of the material in use), and background information on key properties (in the pop-up window).
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New textbook Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, by Ashby, Shercliff and Cebon.
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Professor Mike Ashby, creator of the CES EduPack.
Professor Ashby's
biography
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Materials for Medical Devices database
"New Tool for Med Device Makers Cuts R&D Costs, Speeds Development"
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Screenshot from the Materials for Medical Devices database showing the easy-to-use web user interface.
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Granta and EconCore Collaborate
"Granta and EconCore to Develop New Sandwich Materials Software Tool"
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Materials property chart used to determine the sandwich configuration that produces the optimal performance per unit of cost for a material in bending. Granta and EconCore are collaborating to develop software that will make such analysis straightforward for engineers and materials scientists wishing to select and optimize such materials.
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Supporting information for 2006 news
Ashby Design Award
"Ashby Design Award Winner Announced"
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GRANTA MI 1.2, July
"Aerospace, Defense, and Energy Enterprises Solve Materials
Data Problems"
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GRANTA MI's browser interface, which
is used by materials experts and engineers to search
for and browse materials property information, displays
information from MMPDS-02, the authoritative source
for aerospace property data. This illustrates both the
availability of the latest MMPDS data in GRANTA MI, and
new "embedded media" capabilities that enable any document
type (here we have a PDF document) to be stored, searched
for, and displayed within the system.
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"New Software Means Materials Science Labs Need Never Lost a Test
Result"
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GRANTA MI's browser interface, which
is used by materials experts and engineers to search
for and browse materials property information, displays
information about a stainless steel. This illustrates
GRANTA MI's ability to store, search for, and display
a mix of data types and documents
— for example, text, images, and structured numerical
data as part of a materials desription.
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"Software Helps Designers Avoid Environmental Stress Cracking Product
Failures"
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Which materials have high strength and
low cost, and are
resistant to ESC failure? Plot from Granta
software shows the better candidates and flags up those with
higher risk.
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Granta and ANSYS, 13 June 2006
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GRANTA MI screenshot showing property data for an
aluminum alloy, ready for export to ANSYS Workbench.
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MMPDS Industrial Steering Group, 3 May 2006
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MMPDS website.
GRANTA MI version
1.1 , 26 Apr 2006
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CES EduPack 2006, 16 Mar 2006
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