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Download Teaching Resources

You can browse freely through our list of teaching materials. Free access is provided to the resources listed, right. Access to other resources is restricted.

To download restricted resources, you must:

• Be a professor, lecturer, or supporting staff (see separate information for students)
  
• Have a current annual license for CES EduPack, or a perpetual license with a current annual maintenance contract
  
• Have your e-mail address registered with Granta as a qualified user
  
• Have the associated password

If you need to change or update your license, to register as a qualified user, or to receive a password reminder, please contact us.

CES EduPack resource books & lectures

The standard EduPack resources are organised into six books. Note: Book 4 allows you to download individual lectures as Powerpoint slide sets.

The 2010 versions of these materials will be available in March.

Book 1: Getting Started with CES EduPack (free access)
An introduction to the facilities offered by CES EduPack. In English, French, German, and Spanish.

Book 2: Material and Process Selection Charts (free access to 4 of 27 charts)
27 standard charts mapping property space for each materials class.

Book 3: Useful Approximate Solutions for Standard Problems
Results for constitutive equations; for the loading of beams, columns and torsion bars; for contact stresses, cracks and other stress concentrations; for pressure vessels, vibrating beams and plates; and for the flow of heat and matter.

Book 4: PowerPoint lectures
18 PowerPoint lectures - can be downloaded as individual PowerPoint files. French and German translations are available for selected lectures.

Book 5 : Projects Using CES EduPack
A variety of projects at different levels of complexity to stimulate the student's interest and create confidence in the software.

Book 6 : Exercises with Worked Solutions
These exercises are designed to develop facility in selecting materials, processes and shape, and in devising hybrid materials when no monolithic material completely meets the design requirements.

CES EduPack supplementary resources

• 'Teach yourself' books - NEW IN 2010
• CES EduPack white papers
• Solution manuals for Ashby textbooks
• Glossary of materials and process terminology
• Print-your-own materials wall charts - NEW IN 2010
• How to write a paper by Prof Mike Ashby (free access)
• Sample project files for the Eco Audit Tool
• Recordings - recorded web seminars and presentations providing examples of how CES EduPack can be used

Download supplementary resources (password required) >>>

EduPack community - resource sharing

An area for sharing user resources and links, plus some free resources resulting from the work of Granta and our collaborators. These include:

• Presentations from Materials Education Symposia - NEW IN 2010
• Guides & demo clips to aid use of CES EduPack
• Lecture slides
• Custom CES EduPack databases
• Papers
• Language resources

Index of shared resources (password required) >>>

Additonal software documentation

CES EduPack Release Notes and related documentation