Overview
Ansys 2023 R1 Materials Summary
Ansys 2023 R1 Materials brings an enhanced UX with efficiency driving features like the new CAD Connector and Material Calibration app to make Granta MI™ the authoritative source of truth for materials.
Updates to data and tools in Granta Selector facilitates fast, accurate early-stage design for Proactive Sustainability: now on Ansys Gateway powered by AWS. Material data is a critical factor in simulation accuracy – Granta offers the latest metals, polymers, PCB and electromagnetic absorbing materials that support accurate physics simulation across automotive, 5G and high-tech.
Theme 1: Enhanced UX for an Authoritative Source of Materials
Companies like Ferrari and Baker Hughes have used Ansys Granta MI™ to make digitalizing materials part of their digital transformation journey. Ansys 2023 R1 brings an enhanced Granta UX, for administrator and user alike, that offers a more configurable, adaptable, and localized authoritative source of truth for materials. Features like the new CAD Connector will save simulation analyst time and guarantee traceability between CAD (Siemens NX) material records and simulation models in Ansys Workbench via the Granta MI Gateway.
Theme 2: Proactive Sustainability: now on the Cloud!
By the time you’re measuring a product’s environmental impact using an LCA (life cycle assessment), at that stage of product development you are already committed to 80% of the total product cost – change is too late. Proactive Sustainability with Ansys Granta Selector’s latest eco data and Eco Audit tool helps shift the necessary trade-offs earlier in design. By partnering with Ansys Discovery, engineers can explore and iterate rapidly between design scenarios and material options. Granta Selector’s availability in Ansys Gateway powered by AWS makes early-stage material sustainability accessible in the cloud.
Theme 3: Help Simulation Accuracy With Materials
Material Calibration is a key pre-simulation step – introduced as an application in Granta MI 2022 R2. It now offers a new ‘initialize’ feature that helps easily generate accurate material coefficients for complex material models – now also available in Ansys Granta MI Pro. The right material data is also important for accurate simulation, that’s why in Ansys 2023 R1 the latest metals, polymers, PCB and electromagnetic absorbing data is available. This supports innovation across automotive and high-tech industry applications from 5G to 3D-IC.
Ansys 2023 R1 Materials Release highlights
Main Highlights
- Enhanced Ansys Granta MI™ UX use features like display name localization, an extension of linked tabular data and personalized OneMI page for a best-in-class authoritative source of truth for materials.
- Material Calibration app, also in Granta MI Pro, adds an ‘Initialize’ feature that uses ML algorithms to estimate initial coefficients. Making it easy to improve the accuracy of their simulation.
- The new CAD Connector will save simulation analyst time and guarantee traceability between CAD material records (Siemens NX) and their CAE models (via Ansys Workbench Gateway).
- Updated detail to transport method and static mode data along with customizable joining and finishing process data bring a new level of accuracy for the Eco Audit tool in Ansys Granta Selector and Granta EduPack. Granta Selector is now available in Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.
- Added polymers and metals data include specialist non-linear simulation-ready data from the likes of Sabic and Kuraray. 300+ new PCB and Electromagnetic absorbing materials bring new solutions for applications from 3D-IC to sensor, radar and 5G across high tech and automotive.
- Stay REACH compliant by tracking and phasing out 3,500+ PFAS substances available within the dedicated Restricted Substances module in Granta MI.
Granta MI Enterprise
An improved Granta UX makes accessing an authoritative source of materials truth easier.
- The new CAD Connector will save simulation analyst time and guarantee traceability between CAD material records (Siemens NX) and their CAE models (via Ansys Workbench Gateway).
- Features like the linked tabular data, schema localization and personalized OneMI page offer an enhanced UX to access your source of materials truth.
- Material Calibration App is now open to non-material experts with the “initialize function” that offers initial coefficients for more accurate curve fitting. New hyperelastic models like the time-dependent Bergstrom Boyce are now available.
- Updates for Granta’s Additive Manufacturing functionality with a new connector with EOS machines for fast, accurate data transfer and updates with the latest Senvol data.
- Stay REACH compliant by tracking and phasing out 3,500+ PFAS substances available within the dedicated Restricted Substances module in Granta MI.
Granta MI Pro
More ways to manage materials information faster.
- Additional composites and metals schemas have been developed to improve material data control for managing these types of process.
- The Electromagnetic data bundle is now available offering simulation-ready data on 1,700+ grades of materials for low and high frequency electromagnetic applications.
- The Material Calibration app is now available in MI Pro for fast accurate curve fitting for experimental material data.
Granta Selector
Now make better material decisions on the cloud with Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.
- Quickly access, trade-off and select from thousands of materials and their properties on the cloud with Granta Selector on Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.
- Additional processing and transport phase information enable users of the Eco Audit tool to get a more accurate early-stage environmental assessment for their material choice.
- New polymer, metals, PCB and Electromagnetic absorbing materials for applications like autonomous vehicles, sensors, radars, 5G and 3D-IC.
Granta MDS & Material Data
Updated data for applications from autonomous vehicles to 5G.
- Updates to the 105,000 polymers with specialist non-linear simulation-ready data from the likes of Sabic and Kuraray. 3,000 new records from StahlDat SX and SAE International including temperature-dependent data.
- 300+ new PCB and electromagnetic absorbing materials for applications like autonomous vehicles, sensors, radars, 5G and 3D-IC.
- Updates to ensure the most comprehensive data is available for Aerospace, Medical and Additive applications for the: MMPDS, Senvol, ASM Medical data tables.
Granta EduPack
Improved support for materials teaching across multiple disciplines and languages.
- Combination and expansion of the Medical Devices and Bioengineering databases, helping to introduce students to materials used in a wide range of medical devices.
- Additional processing and transport phase information enable users of the Eco Audit tool to get a more accurate early-stage environmental assessment for their material choice.
- Introductory databases and user interface now available in Portuguese, further supporting early-years teaching in students’ native languages.
