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GRANTA MI:Viewer

GRANTA MI:Viewer is a browser-based user interface offering easy access to your organization's materials data for the widest possible audience of users.

MI:Viewer provides access to the single, central materials database at the heart of GRANTA MI. Crucially, GRANTA MI allows your organization to control access so that each MI:Viewer user sees only the information that is appropriate to their role. Within these limits, engineers, materials scientists, and others can employ MI:Viewer's simple-to-use tools to search, browse, analyze, list, sort, chart, import, export, and use approved data.

The clear, concise user interface, within a familiar browser environment, has been designed in collaboration with users in industry. Based on this input, the user interface design was updated in version 2.0.

Search — a quick search capability, including advanced options such as wild cards. You can search the whole database or constrain your search to specific areas.

Browse — browse through the database, as you would using the ‘contents’ section of a book. Database records are placed in an easy-to-navigate folder-file-like hierarchy or ‘tree’.

Select —create lists of records that pass specific criteria. You can use this feature for property-based material selection. For example: list all MMPDS materials (MIL-Handbook 5 alloys) with strength greater than 130 ksi and stiffness greater than 30,000 ksi at 500° F.

Comparison table — create a table of information from specific materials or records allowing straightforward comparison of any attributes.

A comparison table for data from an HCF research program

X-Y Chart — create plots of data for a chosen set of records on an X-Y plot. For example, once all the data for an HCF research program are committed to the database, plot the SN data on a graph as a quality check. Are there any outliers?

This GRANTA MI screen shows SN data for a metal at different R ratios.

Export — where data in the database is to be used by third-party software, such as an FEA code, formatted input files for that code can be easily created using the export application. The software comes with sample exporters for common CAE packages, for example, for Abaqus, ANSYS, Nastran, and Patran. Custom exporters are made to suit an organization’s particular CAE environment. More on GRANTA MI exporters... (Note: see also information on GRANTA MI's support for more advanced workflow integration).

MI:Viewer (write mode) — MI:Viewer can be switched to ‘write-mode’ for low-intensity maintenance and updating of the database by a wide audience of non-administrators. MI:Viewer’s write mode enables any authorized user to update the database from anywhere in the world. Functions include:

Edit existing data
Add new data
Add records and folders
Change access control settings on Tables, Folders, Records, Attributes and Data.

Support for analysis tools — MI:Viewer also provides the user interface for specialist, optional tools that operate on or use the data in the GRANTA MI system. An example is GRANTA MI:Enteprise Materials Optimizer (MI:EMO).