Data products

A comprehensive library of materials reference data

Granta has assembled an unrivalled catalog of materials property data and related information. Data is either licensed from other leading providers or researched, collated, and maintained by our own expert team.

Granta Data Series

Data is available as modules—load them into your GRANTA MI or CES Selector software for browsing, searching, and use. Modules are classified into series to help you identify the data that you need.

Data series Description Data modules
Universe
Engineering, economic, and environmental property profiles designed for like-to-like comparisons across the whole spectrum of material and processing possibilities.
MaterialUniverse
Medical MaterialUniverse
Eco
Information on the environmental impact of materials and processes and on restricted substances regulations.
MaterialUniverse (eco data)
Restricted Substances
Coatings
Aerospace & Energy
Authoritative global sources for aerospace alloy and composite data plus materials for power plants and process industries. Note—includes the former Mil-Handbook-5 and Mil-Handbook-17 projects and composite data from the AGATE and NCAMP projects.
MMPDS
CMH-17
ESDU MMDH
ASME BPV Code
Composite Design
Firehole Composites
Medical Devices
Authoritative reference data on materials for cardiovascular and orthopaedic devices. An innovative reference source on human biological materials. And property data to support materials selection in design.
Medical MaterialUniverse
Cardiovascular Materials
Human Biological Materials
Orthopaedic Materials
Plastics
A range of data from Granta and other well-respected sources enabling designers to analyze and compare the properties and processing of plastics and elastomers.
MaterialUniverse (plastics)
CAMPUS Plastics
IDES Plastics
Moldflow
ChemRes
Metals
All Granta metals data, including aerospace alloys, steels, powder metallurgy, and more. From providers including the Stahlinstitut, The Welding Institute (TWI), the World Metals Index (WMI), and the Global Powder Metallurgy Database.
Powder Metallurgy
MI-21
StahlDat SX
MMPDS
ESDU MMDH
ASME BPV Code
MaterialUniverse
Composites
Composite data from manufacturers and leading composite research projects including CMH-17 (formerly Mil-Handbook-17), AGATE, and NCAMP.
CMH-17
Composite Design
Firehole Composites
Special Projects
Share in the results of some interesting materials projects.
Metal Foams
NIST Lead-Free Solders
CAE Starter Database

Granta Data Modules Alphabetical Index

Data modules are loaded into your GRANTA MI or CES Selector software for browsing, searching, and use.

Data module Description
ASME BPV Code ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code: materials data for power & process industries
CAE Starter Database Introductory materials data for CAE applications
CAMPUS Plastics 5,000 plastics grades measured to comparable ISO standards
Cardiovascular Materials Materials and coatings for used in over 5,000 approved cardiovascular devices
ChemRes Resistance of plastics and elastomers to 190 chemical environments
CMH-17 Test data for advanced composite materials (formerly Mil-Handbook-17)
Coatings General coatings properties, restricted substance data
Composite Design Traceable composite design data from the AGATE and NCAMP projects
ESDU MMDH European design-strength data on aerospace metallic materials
Firehole Composites Data for continuous fiber reinforced polymer composites
Human Biological Materials Mechanical properties of bone with age and direction dependence
IDES Plastics 77,000 plastics property datasheets from 725 suppliers
MaterialUniverse Engineering, cost, and eco property profiles for the full range of engineering materials
Medical MaterialUniverse MaterialUniverse plus medical and food grade data
Metal Foams Data from a Granta materials project
MMPDS Alloy data for aerospace component design (previously Mil-Hdbk-5)
Moldflow Identifies plastics compatible with the Moldflow software
MI-21 Chemical, mechanical and physical properties of metals and consumables
NIST Lead-Free Solders Data from a Granta materials project
Orthopaedic Materials Materials, drugs, coatings used in over 8,000 approved orthopeadic devices
Powder Metallurgy Over 600 materials from the Global Powder Metallurgy database
Restricted Substances Substances, materials, and the legislation, regulations, and standards that restrict them
StahlDat SX Property data for the complete register of European steels (the Stahl-Eisen-Liste)

Data Modules for GRANTA MI

The table shows which data modules are compatible with GRANTA MI. Note, some data modules are available only as part of integrated data packages - see the product page for each module for details.

Data module Description
ASME BPV Code ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code: materials data for power & process industries
CAE Starter Database Introductory materials data for CAE applications
CAMPUS Plastics 5,000 plastics grades measured to comparable ISO standards
Cardiovascular Materials Materials and coatings for used in over 5,000 approved cardiovascular devices
ChemRes Resistance of plastics and elastomers to 190 chemical environments
CMH-17 Test data for advanced composite materials (formerly Mil-Handbook-17)
Coatings General coatings properties, restricted substance data
Composite Design Traceable composite design data from the AGATE and NCAMP projects
ESDU MMDH European design-strength data on aerospace metallic materials
Firehole Composites Data for continuous fiber reinforced polymer composites
Human Biological Materials Mechanical properties of bone with age and direction dependence
IDES Plastics 77,000 plastics property datasheets from 725 suppliers
MaterialUniverse Engineering, cost, and eco property profiles for the full range of engineering materials
Medical MaterialUniverse MaterialUniverse plus medical and food grade data
MMPDS Alloy data for aerospace component design (previously Mil-Hdbk-5)
Moldflow Identifies plastics compatible with the Moldflow software
MI-21 Chemical, mechanical and physical properties of metals and consumables
NIST Lead-Free Solders Data from a Granta materials project
Orthopaedic Materials Materials, drugs, coatings used in over 8,000 approved orthopeadic devices
Powder Metallurgy Over 600 materials from the Global Powder Metallurgy database
Restricted Substances Substances, materials, and the legislation, regulations, and standards that restrict them
Stahldat SX Property data for the complete register of European steels (the Stahl-Eisen-Liste)

Data Modules for CES Selector

The table shows which data modules are compatible with CES Selector. CES Selector provides PC-based data browsing, charting, and materials selection tools. Data is purchased as part of the editions shown or (in some cases) as standalone modules.

Edition Data description Data modules
Basic Edition
Generic data on over 3,000 materials types, supports selection, substitution, cost analyses, and analysis of environmental properties.
MaterialUniverse
CES Polymer Selector
Granta plastics data plus information on tens of thousands of plastics from leading plastics data sources, CAMPUS and IDES
MaterialUniverse
CAMPUS Plastics
IDES Plastics
ChemRes
CES Aero Selector
Includes alloy data from MMPDS and CMH-17 composites data—relevant for aerospace, energy, and similar applications
MaterialUniverse
MMPDS

CMH-17
Firehole Composites
CES Medical Selector
Granta's MaterialUniverse module with additional medical and food grade data, packaged with extensive information on plastics
Medical MaterialUniverse
CAMPUS Plastics
IDES Plastics
ChemRes
Other modules
This data, including ASME materials data for power and process industries, ESDU aerospace data, and the Firehole Composites data module can be added as standalone modules
ASME BPV Code
ESDU MMDH
StahlDat SX
Metal Foams


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