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Granta for Composites

The composite challenge

Composite materials have a growing importance, particularly in high performance engineering sectors such as aerospace. Anyone selecting or marketing these materials needs good data on the properties and processing of composites and good tools to apply this data. But managing and using such property data becomes both more significant and more difficult in organizations – such as large aerospace enterprises or composite producers – where testing and analysis of composite materials is important.

Engineering enterprises can waste millions of dollars-worth of time and resources through poor management of materials test data. And they can fail to take opportunities for innovation if they do not follow best practice. Composite materials make such information management still more challenging, because composites are inherently more complex than other materials. This is because composites consist of more than one material and because their properties are more dependent on geometry, operating environment, and processing routes.

The Granta solution

At Granta, we are the materials information technology experts. We help leading engineering enterprises such as Boeing, EADS Astrium, GE, NASA, Renault F1, and Rolls-Royce to manage and apply business-critical materials property data. For example, we enable the capture and analysis of materials test data, and the deployment of the resulting information for use in engineering design.

We help materials producers to optimise their product portfolios and to position their products against competitive offerings.

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We have written a new technical paper examining the difficulties of composite data management and showing how these can be addressed. We suggest reading this paper with its companion paper Meeting the Materials Data Management Needs of Engineering Enterprises, which provides more detail on some of the general applications and requirements of materials data management software.

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