This document provides an overview of a lecture on material property charts. It discusses how charts can help visualize relationships between material properties and map families of materials. The lecture will cover creating different types of charts using Granta EduPack software, including bar charts and bubble charts, and using tools to annotate and customize charts. It also discusses using the software to generate reports and manage chart projects. The overall goal is for students to understand how to extract meaning and make selections from materials data using visualization and charts.

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Unit 2.
Material property charts:
Mapping materials
Mike Ashby
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge

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Learning objectives for this lecture unit
Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and
Understanding
Understanding of material families and their property relationships
Skills and Abilities Ability to create material property charts for specific purposes
Values and Attitudes Grasping a broad view of materials information, the big picture
Resources
 Text: “Materials: engineering, science, processing and design” 4th edition by M.F. Ashby, H.R. Shercliff and D. Cebon, Butterworth
Heinemann, Oxford, 2019, Chapters 1-2
 Text: “Materials Selection in Mechanical Design”, 5th edition by M.F. Ashby, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2016, Chapters 1-2
 Texts: Callister, Budinski, Askeland and others – recommended reading in records
 Software: Ansys Granta EduPack

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Outline of lecture unit 2
 Exploring relationships: property charts
 Making charts
 Custom subsets, adding your own
materials
 Report writing

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Bar charts
Metals Polymers Ceramics Hybrids
PEEK
PP
PTFE
WC
Alumina
Glass
CFRP
GFRP
Fibreboard
Steel
Copper
Lead
Zinc
Aluminum
103
10-3
10-2
10-1
102
10
1
Bar chart
Data sheets = numbers, words
Property charts
We want meaning
Many
decades
Log scale

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Bar-chart created with Granta EduPack
Metals Polymers Ceramics Hybrids
Materials
with high
modulus
Materials
with low
modulus
Metals
Polymers
Elastomers

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Which courses? Campus-wide?
Aerospace engineering Architecture Bioengineering
Materials science General engineering Polymer engineering
Product design Environmental engineering Sustainability assessment

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Bubble charts
Bubble
chart
Log scales
Families occupy
discrete fields

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Bubbles chart created with Granta EduPack
Display Box:
Materials with
high Modulus and
Density
Display line:
Materials
with constant
specific stiffness
[E/]

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Creating charts
Plotting and selection tools

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Creating charts
X-Axis Y-Axis
List of properties
 Density
 Yield strength
 Young’s modulus
 etc.
Property
Bar chart
X-Axis
Choose:
Property
1
Property 2
Bubble chart
Y-Axis

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Creating advanced charts
X-Axis Y-Axis
List of properties
Advanced
 Density
 Yield strength
 Young’s modulus
 etc. List of properties
 Density
 Yield strength
 Young’s modulus
 etc
+ - *
/ ^ ( )
Modulus Density
/
Modulus
/
Density
Bar chart
Modulus
/
Density
Yield strength / Density
Bubble chart
Choose:

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The chart-management tool bar
Box selection
tool
Cancel selection
Line selection
tool
Zoom out
Add curves
Add text
Add arrow
Chart annotation
tools
Results from all enabled stages
Hide failed materials
Add/manage family envelopes
Autoscale
Zoom in

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The line, box, and curve tools
Impact strength
10 February 2017
For annotation, select display only: Right-click on line, box or curve to format:
Add boxes and lines Add text to chart Display curves and arrows

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How to use annotation tools in charts

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Custom subsets
Electrical components (Eco Audit
Ceramics and glasses
Hybrids: composites etc
Metals and alloys
Polymers and elastomers
MaterialUniverse
Custom subset
Selection table:
Initial subset:
Selection attributes:
MaterialUniverse
All materials
All properties

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Changing the chart settings (labels etc)

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Making your own records in Tools and other ways
Or, right click on a chart to
add limited data to it…

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Manage your charts in Tools

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Saving projects, report writing
To
WORD
Paste
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
Description
Image
_
Caption
1. ABS pellets. © Shutterstock 2. ABS allows detailed moldings, accepts color well, and is non-toxic
and tough enough to survive the worst that children can do to it. © Gettyimages
The material
ABS (Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) is tough, resilient, and easily molded. It is usually opaque,
although some grades can now be transparent, and it can be given vivid colors. ABS-PVC alloys are
tougher than standard ABS and, in self-extinguishing grades, are used for the casings of power tools.
Compositional summary
Block terpolymer of acrylonitrile (15-35%), butadiene (5-30%), and styrene (40-60%).
General properties
Density 1.01e3 - 1.21e3 kg/m^3
Price * 2.5 - 3 USD/kg
Date first used 1937
Mechanical properties
Young's modulus 1.1 - 2.9 GPa
Shear modulus 0.319 - 1.03 GPa
Bulk modulus 3.8 - 4 GPa
Poisson's ratio 0.391 - 0.422
Yield strength (elastic limit) 18.5 - 51 MPa
Tensile strength 27.6 - 55.2 MPa
Compressive strength 31 - 86.2 MPa
Elongation 1.5 - 100 % strain
Hardness - Vickers 5.6 - 15.3 HV
Typical uses
Safety helmets; camper tops; automotive instrument panels and other interior components; pipe
fittings; home-security devices and housings for small appliances; communications equipment;
business machines; plumbing hardware; automobile grilles; wheel covers; mirror housings;
refrigerator liners; luggage shells; tote trays; mower shrouds; boat hulls; large components for
recreational vehicles; weather seals; glass beading; refrigerator breaker strips; conduit; pipe for drain-
waste-vent (DWV) systems.
Tradenames
Claradex, Comalloy, Cycogel, Cycolac, Hanalac, Lastilac, Lupos, Lustran ABS, Magnum, Multibase,
Novodur, Polyfabs, Polylac, Porene, Ronfalin, Sinkral, Terluran, Toyolac, Tufrex, Ultrastyr
Links
Reference
ProcessUniverse
Producers
Open project
Save project
Print …….
Cut
Copy
Paste….
Clip-
board
Metals Polymers Ceramics Hybrids
Metals Polymers Ceramics Hybrids
Copy - Paste
For best results
Paste Special -
Device Independent Bitmap.

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Summary
• Material property charts gives meaning to data
• Granta EduPack lets you make any chart you want
• Comprehensive report-writing facilities
• The texts contain many charts – you can copy them for teaching
• You can visualize any database, and add your own records
• Project files for many charts can be downloaded from the Granta website
• Data Visualization
(understanding the data)
Selection
(using the data)

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Lecture unit series
These PowerPoint lecture units, as well as many other types of resources,
can be found in the Ansys Education Resources webpage.
www.ansys.com/education-resources
Finding and Displaying Information
Unit 1 The materials of engineering
Unit 2 Material property charts: mapping materials
Unit 3 The Elements database: properties, relationships and resources
Material Properties
Unit 4 Manipulating properties: composition, microstructure,
architecture
Unit 5 Designing new materials: filling the materials-property space
Unit 6 Materials Science and Engineering
Selection
Unit 7 Material selection: translation, screening, ranking, documentation
Unit 8 Objectives in conflict: trade off methods and penalty functions
Unit 9 Material and shape: materials for efficient structures
Unit 10 Manufacturing processes and cost modeling
Unit 11 Eco-informed material selection
Unit 12 Eco design and the Eco Audit tool
Sustainability
What is a sustainable development? A materials perspective
Materials for low carbon power
Special Topics
Architecture and the built environment: materials for construction
Structural sections: shape in action
Materials in industrial design: Why do consumers buy products?
The Design database for Products
The Battery Designer tool
Advanced Teaching and Research
Advanced databases
The Aerospace database
The Polymer database
The Synthesizer tool: hybrids and other models
Bioengineering and Medical Devices

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© 2018 Mike Ashby
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Document Information
This lecture unit is part of a set of teaching resources to help introduce students to materials, processes and rational selections.
Ansys Education Resources
To access more undergraduate education resources, including lecture presentations with notes, exercises with worked solutions, microprojects, real
life examples and more, visit www.ansys.com/education-resources.
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