Introduction
“Garbage in, Garbage out” is a statement that is applicable to multiple fields of study, and is especially applicable to simulations. It is important to have a solid understanding of the materials and their properties before running a simulation.
GRANTA Material selector provides engineers with a wide variety of material datasheets. GRANTA also offers tools to help engineers select the optimal material for their use case, whether their selection criteria are based on physical, mechanical, environmental, or economic variables.
Material Selection
GRANTA has a significant library of materials and material properties, including fatigue data and creep data for select materials. It can be integrated with Workbench, allowing us to easily add our specific alloys to our project and conduct our analysis.
We have the option to open GRANTA as a standalone product, or to launch it from within Workbench. We have the option to directly add GRANTA material properties to analysis blocks when we do this.
We can also download material properties for use in a variety of software, including Workbench, Solidworks, NX, and others.
We can add a variety of different material libraries for various purposes. There are specialized libraries for aerospace materials, including the MMPDS database, additive manufacturing, polymers, composites, and others.
Material Comparison
GRANTA’s databases also includes information on material pricing, composition, environmental impacts, and other metrics that are useful outside of an engineering context. We can do side by side comparisons of different materials as well.
If we want to compare a large amount of materials, we can use the chart tools in GRANTA. We can apply filters to narrow down what materials we want to consider for production.
The above image shows some of the filters we can apply. Stage 1 narrows down what data sets we select from. Stage 2 is a filter for specific properties. Stage 3 generates a chart based on Young's Modulus and Price.
The above image shows the filters available. They include multiple properties, including physical, mechanical, environmental, and economic properties to help filter out unviable materials.
The above chart shows a mix of alloys narrowed down from the first image in this article using a few filters.
Conclusion
In conclusion, GRANTA Selector is a powerful tool that allows us to quickly add materials to our engineering simulations. We can also use GRANTA to select the best materials based on a variety of different criteria.
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