Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable,
efficient, and lightweight designs.
Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential
(GWP) and set your data preferences.
View information such as material name, quality, type, provider, version, chemical composition of a material, material
test information, and detailed material properties.
The material properties data such as Fatigue Properties, Mechanical Properties is displayed. The tested data for these
properties is also displayed as supplied by the provider.
Many materials have multi point data associated with them (For example, stress-strain data or PVT data for molding
applications). Such data can be viewed as a plots in AMDC.
An administrator is provided access to the AMDC Dashboard to access specfic administrative related tasks to maintain
up to date information in the Altair Material Database.
Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential
(GWP) and set your data preferences.
The environmental impact of a material is indicated in its carbon footprint and
Global Warming Potential (GWP).
AMDC provides generic data for GWP and CO2 footprint values that are
derived from various sources and assessments for materials, compounds, processing
machines, and power consumption by country. With this, it helps you understand the
impact of global warming as a result of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere
and enables you to tailor the material accordingly.
Select a material type in the filter pane.
The search result is displayed with the list of materials that matches
your selection.
Select a material and click
The Info tab displays general information about the selected
material.
Click LCA(CO2).
The filtered material is selected as a compound material with its ratio
in percentage, and the generic data of GWP and carbon footprint for the compound
material are displayed.
Note: To understand the assumptions based on which
the system calculates the GWP and C02 footprint values, click the
more information link.
To customize a material, add different types of compounds such as Polymer,
Fiber, and any Additive or Filler based materials. In this example, I choose
Glass fiber as an additional compound.
The generic data of GWP and CO2 footprint for the additional
compound material is displayed.
Specify the percentage of the material in the compound.
Add a Processing type for producing the new material
from the selected compounds. I select Add Drying
processing.
The power consumption value is displayed.
Note: The Country field is
enabled to select.
Change the Country name from the list.
The generic data of GWP and CO2 footprint for the selected
country is displayed.
Note: Add more processing types for understanding
the amount of GWP and CO2 footprint effect of the material in the
compound.
Scroll down to view the pie chart of GWP and CO2 footprint
values.
Click Download to download the GWP and CO2
footprint values for the material compounds, processing types, and power
consumption by country info in a PDF format.