development of a new altair-customized database of advanced material properties
DESCRIPTION
Key to Metals, now rebranded to Total Materia, is a vast database which contains the properties of metallic and non-metallic materials, providing a turn-key solution for the global engineering community. Designed to help a broad range of engineering professionals, Key to Metals is specialized in helping to find and source similar and equivalent materials worldwide, getting easy-to-use and accurate material properties, and navigating through international standards. Besides the “standard” dataset which includes mechanical and physical properties at various temperatures, chemical compositions, international cross-reference tables and more, Total Materia also presents a unique collection of advanced properties, such as stress-strain curves, cyclic properties, fracture mechanics, and creep, specifically developed to serve the engineering community with mechanical and physical properties essential for accurate advanced CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) calculations and simulations. The Total Materia database with advanced CAE properties included has been available to Altair users to through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA) program from the beginning of 2012 and has enjoyed broad popularity among the Partner Alliance user base, with more than 500 users and the number growing every week. The fact that this is the first Web application within the APA provides an interesting opportunity to analyse CAE users’ behaviour and patterns in using a material properties database, showing that users have interest in both conventional material properties, material comparison and cross-referencing, as well as in advanced properties, thus providing additional benefits to Altair customers beyond pure CAE usage. High exposure and positive feedback received in the first year of service prompted the development and launch of the Total Materia Premium Edition, an Altair-exclusive Web application that combines the previous functionality with a unique possibility to seamlessly export data to HyperWorks software and includes the properties of polymers, ceramics and composites. As a result of the additional new functionalities, more than 70% of Altair users utilized Premium Edition instead of the Standard. New developments in 2014 include a completely new software edition that is to be launched with HyperWorks 13.0 and, as an alternative to the existing independent Web interface, and provides the complete functionality of Total Materia Premium Edition in a tight integration with HyperWorks software. Through a specially developed Web Service API to Altair software, HyperWorks users get an opportunity to seamlessly query the Key to Metals database and utilize any of its 6 million material property records without leaving the HyperWorks environment and their simulation task.TRANSCRIPT
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ATC Europe
Munich, June 2014
Prof. Dr Viktor Pocajt, Daan Bosman
New Developments
on Altair-Customized Database
of Advanced Material Properties
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Engineering Metals Properties
Requirements
• Challenge - Engineers need precise material
properties information
• Today - Most of CAE packages have
some material libraries, but they are
either empty or populated with only
a handful of most common materials
• Engineers need to search and occasionally find
some data in scattered sources such as
standards, books, articles and the Internet,
some of them being even free
• Results in…
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5) Time wasted on searching for properties
instead of engineering
4) Lost opportunities to optimize design
3) Difficulties in communication with purchasing
and manufacturing, especially internationally
2) Creating islands
of information within
the organization
1) 29.3% of all failures
are caused by poor design
or lack of knowledge about
material properties and
standard specifications!
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Example
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Yield stress
Aluminum: 240-310 MPa
Stainless steel: 275-350 MPa
Carbon steel: 205-275 MPa
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Is it?
• Aluminum (240-310 MPa ???) • Grade 1060, ASTM B 736, Plates, sheets; Annealed (O);
1,295 - 76,2 mm; YS = 17 MPa
• AA 2014, Plates; Solution heat treated and artificially aged (T62); 12,7-25,4 mm; YS = 407 MPa
• Stainless steel (275-350 Mpa ???) • S30403, ASTM A 814; Pipes; Heat treated; YS = 170 MPa
• Type 630, ASTM A 693, Plates, sheets, strips; Precipitation hardened (PH496); YS = 1070 MPa
• Carbon steel (205-275 MPa ???) • A 1008 EDDS, ASTM A 1008; Sheets; Cold rolled; YS = 105 MPa
• 42 NCD 16-M , AFNOR NF A 32-058, Castings; Quenched and tempered (Class 1); YS = 1500 MPa
• Dependency on the heat treatment • S21400, ASTM A 580; Wires; Annealed; YS = 345
• S21400, ASTM A 580; Wires; Cold drawn; YS = 1310
• The ratio is ~3,8:1 !
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Use Case 1: Linear Data
• Need - Material data needed
for calculations in the elastic range
• Today’s Method - Some data
CAN be found for some materials
from diversified data sources,
some of them being even free
• Issues with Today’s Method
• Solution - KEY to METALS Standard set
– Information for over 200.000 materials worldwide
through readily available standard dataset
– Information available in seconds
– High quality of the data due to certified process
and strong data coupling with standard
specifications
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Mechanical Properties
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Physical Properties
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Physical Properties: Additional Sources
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Every dataset
is related with
one or more
references
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International Cross-Reference Table
of Equivalent Materials
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Unique
proprietary
categorization
of similarities
and patented
SmartCross
algorithm for
finding
unknown
equivalents
worldwide
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Material Properties Side-by-Side Comparison
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Use Case 2: Advanced Data
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• Need - Material data for advanced CAE calculations • Stress-strain curves for calculations in the plastic
range, fatigue properties, fracture mechanics parameters, etc…
• Challenge - Data is very difficult to find at all • Best case scenario: several hours searching for data
• Often, the time span for searching can be in weeks, resulting in costly delays
• Frequently, the data is not found at all
• Even more possibilities for dangerous errors
The Solution:
KEY to METALS
Extended Range
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Extended Range Data Scope
• The number of materials with the properties directly available online: 1) Stress-strain curves: >4600 materials (+30% in last 12 months) 2) Formability curves: >2500 materials (NEW) 3) Fatigue: >7600 materials (+40%) 4) Fracture mechanics: >800 materials (+50%) 5) Creep data: >7400 materials (+20%)
• These numbers are already considerably larger than any other collection in the world
• The numbers and functionalities are continuously increased through monthly updates & upgrades
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Values in the table
readily available
to be used in a
CAE program
Readily prepared stress-strain curves
and values for thousands of materials,
temperatures and strain rates
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Strain life fatigue
curve as a
combination of
plastic and elastic
strain
The data are given
in a tabular form
that can be easily
copied & pasted
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Upgrade 2013: KEY to METALS
Premium Edition
1) Standard KEY to METALS
2) Extended Range
3) PLUS Module: Polymers,
Ceramics, Composites
4) Data export to HW solver
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Data Export, Step 1: Adding Properties
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Step 2: Reviewing & Editing
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Step 3: Saving the File
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How to Activate the Access to KTM?
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• Step 1: Go to the page for HPWA partner download
http://www.hyperworksalliance.com/PartnersSolution.as
px?partner_id=32&sol_id=41, login with your HWPA ID
and download the application
• Step 2: Install the downloaded application onto your
computer
• Step 3: Run the application using the desktop shortcut,
and on the first access, click on ”Register“ and fill in the
form
• Step 4: You will receive your login data and then you
can login to the KEY to METALS Database
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Altair and KEY to METALS
• Service for Partner Program users started in Jan 2012
• The first Web service within the HWPA
• The highest end-users’ interest within the APA – 100+ new users
within the first two months, now 600+, 20+ new users per month
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New in 2014
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• Rebranding and upgrading
• Completely new interface
• New software features
• New data
• Product consolidation – online access to
Premium Edition for all, for less Units
• New exclusive product integrated with
Hypermesh
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New Interface and Search Options
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Smarter and more user
friendly search possibilities
New Software Features: Graphical Utility
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More properties in Comparison View
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Extended Range Upgrades 2014
• Data upgrades
• New for non-metallic materials: fatigue and creep for
polymers, SS curves and fatigue for composites
• SS curves for automotive steels
• Formability, including anisotropic data and r-factors for
plates
• Statistical fatigue
• Experimental values for SS curves and fatigue
• Goodman diagram: Q3
• SS curves strain rate dependency: Q4
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Fatigue: Experimental and Statistical Values
Multiple SS Curves Comparison Graph
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PolyPLUS Upgrades 2014
• Data upgrade • Current census ~40.000
• ~1.500 new materials per month
• Cross-references
• New materials (Q2/3) • Cement, foams and honeycomb, fibers, ...
• New software features (Q2/3) • Comparison View for PLUS module
• Suppliers for PLUS materials – to be searchable in Suppliers search
• Diagrams - dependency on temperature
• New Quick and Advanced Search
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Connect seamlessly
from HW Desktop to Total Materia
• Log in to Total Materia from HyperWorks Desktop
• Search and Browse material DB for desired materials
• Download and import material data into HyperWorks
HWCT
NEW Product Integrated into HW Collaboration Tools
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Key to Metals / Total Materia Connector
Explore Dialog
Search for Materials
Select Properties
Choose Material Card
Open Import Solver
Deck
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HW Collaboration Tools: Key to Metals Integration
Material Imported
into HyperMesh
Material Card Created,
including Properties
Is KTM / Total Materia a 100% solution?
• No, and it will never be
• BUT, it is the closest you can get – the world’s
most comprehensive information resource
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Altair users surveys: 50-68% respondents very satisfied
It’s easy to give it a try…
1) From HPWA partner download page
2) From within HW Desktop version 13.0
3) Or, directly from www.keytometals.com
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