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Support for Engineering Design and Analysis

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• Ensure the validity and quality of critical materials property data used in your product design and analysis
  
  
• Deploy corporate materials knowledge and reference data throughout your CAD and FEA/CAE communities, in a controlled and secure manner
  
  
• Enable designers and analysts to get materials property data directly within their engineering application, without interrupting their workflow

The problem

Materials property data is one of the fundamental inputs to simulation software - particularly to finite element analysis programs. But getting the right data can be frustrating and time-consuming. You spend too long trying to find it. You find that it is incomplete, out-of-date, or inconsistent with colleagues’ versions. You can’t trace the data to its source.

	An unrivalled catalog of materials reference data A system to ensure a single, controlled, easy-to-access source of in-house materials data Access proprietary and external reference data directly from within your familiar CAD, FEA, or other CAE software

Granta's solution

Materials reference data

Granta’s comprehensive library of data on materials properties and processes includes:

• Aerospace & Energy Data Series - including MMPDS (formerly Mil-Handbook-5) aero alloys, Mil-Handbook-17 composites, ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel data
• Plastics Data Series - including the CAMPUS plastics data
• Medical Data Series - including the Materials for Medical Devices Database
• Universe Data Series - comprehensive coverage of technical, environmental, and relative data for engineering materials; supports systematic selection

Management of corporate materials data

Our GRANTA MI system allows engineering enterprises to capture all of their materials data in a single, controlled, secure materials information resource. Integrated tools allow materials experts to analyze this data and publish approved information for use in design. An intuitive web-browser interface makes it easy for the design and simulation communities to access this data, assured that it is up-to-date, accurate, and approved for use. Materials data can be exported in the right formats for software like Abaqus, ANSYS, Nastran, Patran, and Pro/ENGINEER. Data export can be adapted easily to formats required by in-house tools.

Plug-ins to CAE and other software

Granta can make it even easier for users of engineering software to get materials reference data or approved corporate materials information. Our Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enables the creation of ‘plug-ins’ (such as the Abaqus/CAE Plug-in, pictured above) that provide access to GRANTA MI databases from within CAD systems, FEA pre-processors, or other software. You can browse in-house or reference materials databases, add to and pick from a Favorites list, choose the applicable materials model and units system, and apply the data directly to your model, all without leaving your CAD or CAE environment.

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Further information

Download our technical paper - "Meeting the Materials Data Management Needs of Engineering Enterprises"

General information on GRANTA MI

Information on GRANTA MI's workflow integration via plug-ins and API

Granta's materials reference data