Pushing the Materials Boundaries with CES Selector 2019

Granta Design has released CES Selector 2019, a software tool for materials selection and graphical analysis of materials properties. The new version features enhanced data and tools that help you determine whether additive manufacturing technology is a viable option for your project, offer guidance on identifying critical design requirements, and save time and effort in simulation projects. The 2019 version also includes updates to the CES Selector library of specialist datasets.

What’s New

The new Additive Manufacturing (AM) Edition of CES Selector covers all primary industrial AM technologies, and provides data on over 950 industrial machines and more than 1,700 compatible materials. It includes access to supplier information from the updated Senvol Database, supplemented with data on over 190 equivalent materials manufactured using conventional techniques, enabling AM materials to be considered early in material selection studies. 

Select materials early in your project. Ensure you have the right load-bearing characteristics by using the new performance indices for longitudinal and flexural vibration. If materials need to be switched out, CES Selector 2019 provides understanding of likely vibration changes.

Apply CES Selector to pre-screen materials, focusing simulation work on the likeliest candidates. Provide your team with correctly-formatted input data, including enhanced access to Prospector Plastics, and the CAMPUS and MBase Plastics datasets. Extended ‘exporter’ technology makes it easy to get this data into more tools, including Altair Inspire. 

Use the latest supporting resources and best practice information on Granta’s eLearning site. It's now expanded to include additional content for the Professional Level of the CES Selector Certificate Program with the scenario-based decision tree module, and techniques for defining critical design requirements.

Benefit from enhancements to MaterialUniverse, Granta’s dataset of engineering, economic and environmental property profiles designed for like-to-like comparisons across the whole spectrum of material and processing possibilities. In a searchable electronic format, MaterialUniverse contains over 4,000 data records covering virtually all purchasable engineering materials and 240 records covering related processes. Materials records cover the full range of materials classes, and each record has more than 80 general, mechanical, thermal, optical, electrical, environmental, economic, corrosion and other properties.

Additionally, CES Selector features the latest updates of these specialist datasets:

• Prospector Plastics
• CAMPUS & M-Base Plastics
• MMPDS-12 aerospace alloys
• JAHM Curve Data for simulation
• Senvol Database for additive manufacturing

“The subtleties of material selection impact everything from design and development timetables, to financial cost, and regulatory compliance,” says Charlie Bream, product manager for CES Selector at Granta Design. “CES Selector is uniquely able to offer insight, ensuring our customers can find the materials data they need, gain insight into materials properties, and clearly communicate those choices. The enhancements in our 2019 release offer even more of a competitive edge through focused support for additive manufacturing, simulation, and vibration loading.”

Sources: Press materials received from the company.