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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 2022.1
The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2022.1

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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 2022.1

The release notes provide details about the new features, enhancements, and resolved issues in AMDC 2022.1

Landing Page

Experience a new landing page after logging into AMDC from this release. This page enables you to choose the type of database to select and view.

Material selection option lists all materials in the database whereas the CAE option reduces the list to show only the materials that contains CAE ready data.

The Landing Page will be expanded in future releases, allowing for more flexibility and options for end users to tailor the way they want to look at the material data.

Generic Data

Sometimes material manufactures do not supply all the data needed for one or more CAE Applications. These missing parameters prevent the use of such materials in simulations. This issue is very common to all material databases.

AMDC 2022.1 solves this by providing information (both constants such as E, Nu and curves such as Stress-Strain, Viscosity, etc) by adding generic properties data from the same class of materials. This helps in two ways:

Expanding the use of same material for more simulation types
Increasing the total number of materials ready for simulation

Enhanced CAE Export Options:

You can now influence various parameters such as Reduction Factor, Stress Limit, Temperature for Stress Strain (if data is available) while exporting it as a CAE file.
You can encrypt the CAE file before downloading it. The encryption is available for Optistruct and Radioss Solvers only.

Enhanced Compare Options

Two new plot options are added to the materials comparison utility.

Polar Chart allows you to compare multiple properties and visualize the relationship between the data points.
Curve Overlay allows you to compare plot curves of the selected materials on a single axis.

Scatter Plot

You can study how two selected material properties are distributed in the database. The plot helps to derive useful inferences about the extent of correlation, if any, between the selected material properties.

AMDC Private Database (Authoring)

Material administrators can now directly edit/update material properties in the AMDC user interface. This improves the data maintenance capability in AMDC and is a key component in starting the discussion with many of the current M-base customers including CAMPUS to move them on AMDC solution. The material engineering team is going to start these migration discussions in the coming months.