CES EduPack Manual and Getting Started Guide
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1. CES EduPack 2014 CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide April 2014 GRANTA MATERIAL INSPIRAATIO CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide 8 4 Getting Started with CES EduPack The following exercises give an overview of CES EduPack and will teach you how to use the core functionality The exercises in Chapter 5 go into further detail and explore some of the software s more specialized features There is also comprehensive help file within the software that gives more detailed guidance as well as case studies with loadable project files 4 1 Brief Description of CES EduPack The main tools in CES EduPack are BROWSE Explore the database and retrieve records via a hierarchical index or tree e SEARCH Find information via a full text search of records e SELECT The central hub of CES EduPack used to apply the Rational Material Selection methodology A powerful selection engine that identifies records that meet an array of design criteria and enables trade offs between competing objectives e CHART Create charts and add formatting and labels to illustrate your point The following exercises cover the use and functionality of these tools CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide 9 4 2 Browsing and Searching Exercise 1 Opening the Database If you have more than one database installed CES EduPack will show the Databases dialog The following exercises use the MaterialUniverse and Proces2. Stages Z Graph Index 3 Results X out of Y pass Material 1 Material 2 Material 3 Material 4 etc e DELETE THIS STAGE e Find processes to join STEELS Select Processes Joining processes In the Tree Stage window select MaterialUniverse expand E Limit Ceramics Steels Hybrids Al alloys Cu alloys Polymers Ni alloys Tree stage for process Cast Gas Join Ud i Surface Powder Prototype Metals and alloys in the tree select Ferrous and click Insert followed by OK e DELETE THIS STAGE 19 CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide 33 5 Toolbars and General Information Standard Toolbar Estimates the Select entities environmental Search for Browse the using design impact of information on database tree criteria products the Web 23 Browse J Search g Select 2t Tools v Ko Eco Audit oe Synthesizer i Search Web QQ Help v Perform a Eaveites and Predicts the Open CES search over other options performance of Help the database hybrid materials and structures Graph Stage Toolbar Show Show user Line Cancel Family Hide failed reference defined selection tool selection Zoom in envelopes records record records rast A vy gt ie AU Hi amp T ig LAE OE AZA E fr Pow Box Add text Normal size Results Show Show selection tool intersection favorites
3. Alumina translucent and Diamond e DELETE THIS STAGE CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide 17 Exercise 6 Selection Using a Graph Stage When plotted on a Graph Stage records can also be filtered using the charting Box and Line Selection tools This provides a more qualitative approach to filtering Make a BAR CHART of YIELD STRENGTH oy Set the y axis to Yield strength elastic limit Select 1 Selection Data z 3 7 Bar chart MaterialUniverse All bulk materials v Box 2 Selection Stages Yield strength Simit 5 5 Tree Z Graph Index 3 Results Bubble chart X out of Y pass Rank by Property A Line selection Material 1 2130 Material 2 2100 Yield strength Material 3 1950 Material 4 1876 etc Density e Use a BOX SELECTION to find materials with high values of YIELD STRENGTH Click Box Selection then click drag release to define the box e Add DENSITY p to the other axis Either highlight Stage 1 in Selection Stages right click and choose Edit Stage from the menu or double click the axis to edit e Use a BOX SELECTION to find materials with high STRENGTH and low DENSITY Use a LINE SELECTION to find materials with high values of the specific strength oy p Click Gradient Line Selection A then enter slope in the dialog in this case 1 Click on the graph to position the line through a particular point
4. Click above or below the line to select an area in this case above the line for high values of Oy p Drag the line upwards to refine the selection to fewer materials CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide Low alloy steel Titanium alloys Selection box Magnesium alloys See oeeeseecseees Aluminum alloys T EEEE N A Yield strength elastic limit MPa i Aluminum alloys Low alloy steel Titanium alloys NEET EN CFRP isotropic Selection line Magnesium alloys APEERE Polyurethane Stone R Yield strength elastic limit MPa Lead alloys Butyl Rubber Concrete gp i 100 1000 10000 Density kg m 3 e Rank the results by specific strength YIELD STRENGTH DENSITY Rank by Stage 1 Performance Index and click on results column to reverse the order Example results CFRP Titanium alloys Magnesium alloys e DELETE ALL STAGES Using a Tree Stage records can be filtered based on their links to records in other data tables or based on the database hierarchy tree 18 CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide Exercise 7 Selection Using a Tree Stage e Find materials that can be MOLDED In the Tree Stage window select ProcessUniverse navigate to Molding and click Insert followed by OK 1 Selection Data MaterialUniverse All bulk materials Tree stage for material 2 Selection
5. Preferred Currency Preferred Unit System lt Automatic gt The Regional Setting from the operating system for currency is used to view data This will appears as lt Automatic Regional Currency gt e g lt Automatic GBP gt The Regional setting from the operating system for unit system is used to view data This will appear as lt Automatic Regional Units gt e g lt Automatic Metric gt lt None gt Data is displayed using the same currency as it is stored with in the database Attribute data is displayed using the same units as the data is stored with in the database Named setting Named currency is used to display data Named unit system is used to display data 5 1 Legal and Acknowledgments License Agreement The CES EduPack is furnished under a License Agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the License Trademarks Cambridge Engineering Selector CES EduPack CES Selector CES Constructor and other CES related product names are Trademarks of Granta Design Limited Reproduction 36 Except as described in the installation instructions neither the documentation nor the software may be copied reproduced translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form in whole or part without prior written consent of Granta Design Limited Teaching Materials Selection charts record data and online te
6. V 1 Imperial gall 1 546 x 10 m3 1 US gall 3 785 x 103 m3 Viscosity n 1 poise 0 1 N s m2 Ibis 0 1517 N s m2 34 CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide Conversion of Units Stress and Pressure 35 MPa dyn cm Ib in kgf mm bar long ton in MPa 1 107 1 45 x 102 0 102 10 6 48 x 102 dyn cm 107 1 1 45 x 105 1 02 x 10 108 6 48 x 10 Ib in2 6 89 x 10 6 89 x 104 1 703 x 10 6 89 x 10 4 46 x 104 kgf mm 9 81 9 81 x 107 1 42 x 10 1 98 1 63 5 x 102 bar 0 10 108 14 48 1 02 x 102 1 6 48 x 10 long ton in 15 44 1 54 x 108 2 24 x 10 1 54 1 54 x 102 1 Conversion of Units Energy J erg cal eV Btu ft Ibf J 1 107 0 239 6 24x 1018 9 48x104 0 738 erg 107 1 2 39 x 108 6 24 x 101 9 48 x 10 11 7 38 x 108 cal 4 19 4 19 x 107 1 2 61 x 1019 3 97 x 10 3 3 09 eV 1 60x 1079 1 60x1072 3 38 x 10 29 1 1 52 x 1072 1 18 x10719 Btu 1 06 x 108 1 06 x 1010 2 52 x 102 6 59 x 1021 1 7 78 x 102 ft Ibf 1 36 1 36 x 107 0 324 8 46 x 1018 1 29 x 10 1 Conversion of Units Power kW kJ s erg s hp ft Ibf s kW kJ s 1 40 10 1 34 7 38 x 102 erg s 10 10 1 1 34x 1010 7 38x 108 hp 7 46 x 1077 7 46 x 109 1 15 50 x 102 ft Ibf s 1 36 x 10 1 36 x 107 1 82 x 10 1 CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide Options for Preferred Currency and Units Settings Database Options
7. aching resources may be reproduced to be used with students for educational purposes only as long as Granta Design Limited referenced as the source and copyright owner or licensor To reproduce these in published works you must i gain prior written permission from Granta Design Limited contact details to be found at www grantadesign com contact ii acknowledge each instance with the following bibliographical reference Charts data etc from CES EduPack 2014 Granta Design Limited UK www grantadesign com Images please see the individual image caption for reproduction information of images
8. rted Guide 11 Exercise 2 Browse Materials Table MaterialUniverse Subset All materials E MaterialUniverse Ceramics and glasses E Fibers and particulates 7 Hybrids composites foams etc E Metals and alloys m Polymers plastics elastomers Select the Table MaterialUniverse and the Subset All materials Find a record for STAINLESS STEEL Find a record for CONCRETE Open the GENERIC record for POLYPROPYLENE Generic records are records at the folder level and give general information on the material rather than data on a specific variant Generic records have their own icon 4 Double click to open Open a POLYPROPYLENE record Double click on the record name in the tree Click on hyperlinked attribute names In Level 1 and Level 2 databases this will bring up a Science Note giving details of the underlying science and calculations for the attribute In Level 3 databases this will bring up the design note which provides background information on properties test notes and selection guidelines From a design note there will also be a link to the corresponding Science Note Right click on the datasheet to see a context menu with further actions e g locate in Browse tree copy the datasheet print the datasheet export the data to an FE package format CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide 16 4 3 Material Selection Exercise 5 Selection Using a Limit S
9. sUniverse tables which are part of every Granta database MaterialUniverse gt ProcessUniverse y d Producers Shape Structural Sections Magnetic Soke ios Polymers Polymers Plastics Stainless Alloys Tool Steels The Edition Homepage will open showing a list of the available tables and a graphic for each subset Click on a subset name to show its description Use the information icon next to the database name to show a detailed description e Swap between the available subsets and see how they have different applications and data Click on a subset in the Edition Homepage to select it The information displayed is for the currently selected subset Notice that the Browse tree in the left pane updates to the currently selected subset e Change to the PROCESSUNIVERSE table Click on ProcessUniverse and notice that the Browse tree in the left pane updates to show the new table CLOSE the HOMEPAGE Click on the cross at the top of the Homepage tab This page can be reopened at any time from View menu Home CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide 10 Change to the MATERIALUNIVERSE table With the Homepage closed navigate to different tables using the Table drop down in the Browse pane Table MaterialUniverse Subset All materials There are also links to online resources for both students and educators from the homepage CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Sta
10. synthesized records File Types gbd Granta Database file ces CES EduPack Project file cet Selection Template file frl Favorites file prd Eco Audit Product Definition file CES EduPack User Manual and Getting Started Guide Physical Constants and Conversion of Units Absolute zero temperature 273 2 C Acceleration due to gravity g 9 807 m s2 Avogadro s number Na 6 022 x 1023 base of natural logarithm e 2 718 Boltzmann s constant k 1 381 x 10 23 J K Faraday s constant k 9 648 x 104 C mol Gas constant R 8 314 J mol K Plank s constant h 6 626 x 10784 Js Velocity of light ina vacuum c 2 998 x 108 m s Volume of perfect gas at STP 22 41 x 10 3 m mol Angle 8 1 rad 57 30 Density p 1 lb ft 16 03 kg m Diffusion coefficient D 1 cm s 1 0 x 10 m2 s Energy U See below Force F 1 kof 9 807 N 1 Ibf 4 448 N 1 dyne 1 0x10 N Length 1 ft 304 8 mm 1 inch 25 40 mm 1A 0 1 nm Mass M 1 tonne 1000 kg 1 short ton 908 kg 1 long ton 1107 kg 1 Ib mass 0 454 kg Power P See below Stress o See below Specific Heat Cp 1 cal gal C 4 188 kJ kg C 1 Btu lb F 4 187 kJ kg C Stress Intensity K1 1 ksi Vin 1 10 MN m 2 Surface Energy y 1 erg cm 1 mJ m Temperature T 1 F 0 556 K Thermal Conductivity 4 1 cal s cm C 418 8 W m C 1 Btu h ft F 1 731 W m C Volume
11. tage Find materials with MAX SERVICE TEMPERATURE gt 200 C THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY gt 25 W m C ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY gt 1e15 pyohm cm 1 Selection Data Limit stage MaterialUniverse All bulk materials v gt Mechanical properties 2 Selection Stages v Thermal properties Min Max ra Graph Index Max service temp 200 C Thermal conductivity 25 W m K 3 Results Specific heat capacity amp Jikg K X out of Y pass Rank by Property A v Electrical properties Material 1 2130 Min Max Material 2 2100 Electrical resistivity 1e15 uohm Material 3 1950 cm Material 4 1876 Ceramics and glasses I 7 etc Composites Limit Metals and alloys HEE guidance Polymers and elastomers MEMME ba rs 1 1E 8 1E 20 Use the limit bars for guidance on suitable values Enter the limits minimum or maximum as appropriate and click Apply If a reference record is set its values for each property will be shown to the right of the min max entry boxes Example results Aluminum nitride Alumina Silicon nitride Some properties have discrete values rather than numeric ranges e Edit this limit stage and search for materials with non opaque TRANSPARENCY Under Optical Properties refine by transparency using the drop down and tick Translucent Transparent and Optical quality Click Apply Example results
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