Ansys and Matereality announce interoperability of software

Southpointe, Pennsylvania-Simulation software supplier Ansys Inc. announced 18 Jan 2006 that, in collaboration with Matereality llc, it has produced an interface to smoothly export material data inputs from Matereality into Ansys Workbench.

As a result, the company said, Ansys Workbench users can "access a wealth of databases that contain material property data, furthering engineers' ability to analyse designs directly on the desktop."

Matereality is a web-based data management technology that "contains thousands of datasets" said the Ansys statement.

These include stress-strain data; rate-dependent properties; hyperelastic properties; thermal properties; and creep, viscoelastic, and fatigue data on plastics, metals, rubber, foam and composites. Such data is "particularly relevant to the Ansys user community and often not available publicly," explains Ansys.

"This technology interface will greatly expand the accuracy of simulations that Ansys users can perform by giving them access to relevant material property data" said Mike Wheeler, vice president and general manager at Ansys.

Ansys's high-end capabilities in multi-physics, crash, fatigue, long-term behaviour (creep), viscoelastic behavior and computational fluid dynamics "can be more fully utilised with the easy availability of nonlinear material properties," Wheeler added. Also, he commented, Ansys and Matereality will continue to integration to extract wider varieties of Ansys-relevant material data for future Ansys material models."

Matereality is the most comprehensive source of material data, said Ansys, and also provides access to plastics material supplier databases, the MIL5 Handbook Database (used extensively by the aerospace and defense industries) and the NIST Lead- Free Solder Database (pertinent to the electronics industry).

Using Matereality's MIRO CAE Wizard, Ansys Workbench users can quickly search their personal databases, as well as important industry public and private data collections, for Ansys-relevant data. They can evaluate the data for pertinence and export it digitally into Ansys Workbench.

"While serving an important role as a materials data resource, Matereality also allows Ansys users to maintain their own personal material databases and have global, secure access and control over their data," said Renu Gandhi, vice president of Business Development at Matereality.