Matereality Releases DatabaseLite

By DE Editors

Matereality LLC has released DatabaseLite, a free material database, and CAE Modeler software, which allows users to explore linear and nonlinear simulation within ANSYS Workbench.

CAE Modeler is designed to operate within the ANSYS Workbench platform. It presents an interactive environment in which users can transform raw material data into an ANSYS material model and review, edit or update the model as needed, all within Workbench. Engineers can assess the quality of the material model by viewing the raw data and data certificates from test laboratories and suppliers. The resulting simulation can include an embedded link to the exact data source within Matereality, providing the ultimate in traceability for material modeling.

DatabaseLite for ANSYS contains free material data for about 50 material models, ranging from simple elastic to temperature dependent stress—strain data, MISO models, hyperelastic data inputs for rubber, fatigue data on metals, rate-dependent tensile data for ANSYS Explicit STR, and visco-elastic data and thermal properties on polymers. Materials include metals, plastics, foam and rubber.

To use DatabaseLite for ANSYS, the user is led directly to an interface to search for material models ready for use with ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Explicit STR. A 2,000+ material models master database upgrade produced by Matereality, LLC is available for purchase. The upgrade includes plug-ins that permit CAE Modeler for ANSYS to operate completely within ANSYS Workbench.

For more information, visit Matereality and ANSYS.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.