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Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
AMDC Archived Release Notes
Here are the release notes for features and updates to Altair Material Data Center.
AMDC Release Notes 2021.1
The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2021.1.

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Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
- Launch AMDC
  Launch the application to access the Altair material data. You can customize and launch the application from Favorite Apps, on the Altair One Home page.
- AMDC Access and License
  Upgrade your Altair Material Data Center access to Explorer and ExplorerPlus to unlock all material data and the application features.
- Ziegler PEM Material Database
- Integrated Desktop Applications
  Get instant access to an exhaustive database with thousands of simulation ready materials directly from within Altair desktop applications! This seamless integration automatically lists materials suitable for the application and lets users look up, search, compare and download CAE-ready material cards directly in the software.
- Whats New
  Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Material Data Center.
- Tutorials
  Discover the features of AMDC with step by step tutorials and videos.
- Search Materials
  Search a material or a list of materials using quick search, advanced search or scatter plots.
- Compare Materials
  Select one or more materials to compare the chosen materials data.
- Filter Materials
  Browse and filter materials using the predefined categories as filters in the left navigation pane that most suit your requirements.
- Similar Materials
  Find similar materials in terms of mechanical, thermal, or electrical properties.
- View Material Details
  Visualize advanced and accurate material properties and curves. Also, view material impact using Global Warming Potential (GWP) and set your data preferences.
- Export Material Data
  Export material data sheets with plots as a PDF and CAE simulation-ready material cards to your workstation or Altair Drive.
- Share Material Data
  Share material information in an email, document or message. Recipients of the link can view the material information in AMDC.
- Customize Table View
  Customize the materials data in table view. Add, remove material properties as table columns, reorder the columns and sort them.
- Set AMDC Theme
  Set theme of AMDC.
- Manage Favorites
  Create and maintain different lists of favorite materials to quickly access from the catalog or maintain a list of materials for your project.
- Set Preferences
  AMDC currently supports English and German languages, different themes, and Metric and U.S. Customary units as unit systems.
- AMDC Private Database
  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.
- AMDC Archived Release Notes
  Here are the release notes for features and updates to Altair Material Data Center.
  - AMDC Release Notes 2024.0
    The release notes provide details about the new features and enhancements in AMDC 2024.0
  - AMDC Release Notes 2023.1
    The release notes provide details about the new features and enhancements in AMDC 2023.1
  - AMDC Release Notes 2023.0.1
    The release notes provide details about the new features and enhancements in AMDC 2023.0.1
  - AMDC Release Notes 2023.0
    The release notes provide details about the new features and enhancements in AMDC 2023.0
  - AMDC Release Notes 2022.2
    The release notes provide details about the new features and enhancements in AMDC 2022.2
  - AMDC Release Notes 2022.1
    The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2022.1
  - AMDC Release Notes 2022
    The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2022.
  - AMDC Release Notes 2021.2
    The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC2021.2.
  - AMDC Release Notes 2021.1
    The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2021.1.
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AMDC Release Notes 2021.1

The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2021.1.

Supported Browsers

Launch a Browser and call Altair Material Data Center^TM to access from any device, from anywhere.

Table 1.
Browser	Supported Version (or higher)
Chrome	84.0.4147.0
Firefox	78.0.2
Edge	84.0.4147.0
Safari	13.1.1 (14609.2.9.1.3)

New Features

The new features available in Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) for this release are:

New Material Data

New materials – Salzgitter (21), Wanhua (3), Bilstein (13), FH Aachen (17)
New material types – Steel (42), Aluminium (6), Plastic (3), Magnesium (2)
New material properties – Anisotropy data – Forming Limit Curves – Durability data – Failure data
New CAE interfaces – Material models for anisotropy (Hill, Barlat)

Material Properties

Material properties across several different testing conditions such as moisture conditions or temperatures are consolidated and displayed as part of a single material.

Private Database

In addition to Altair hosted database, customers can now request private databases managed by Altair their proprietary material information. The private database comes with tools to configure the database, import the materials and define access controls on the materials.

Catalog Editor: It provides a powerful and intuitive user interface for administrators to define the structure of the database – material properties/types/names, and tailor AMDC as per their needs, without a single line of code being required.
Import tool: Users with the necessary permissions can use this tool to import material data using pre-defined data formats. The system also offers the possibility of integrating custom importers for proprietary data formats.
User Management: The user management interface allows system administrators to add/remove users and assign permissions.

Resolved Issues

Issue that have been resolved in this release

Improved non-linear material properties import into Simlab.