Material Engineering Software

software develope by Ashby, selection of material, oxford universityn of Material (method used index of material properties)

Not sure exactly what you are looking for, but I have used a program called CES (Cambridge Engineering Selector). It is usefull for material selection, can create graphs of strenght vs. resisitivity or any such properties. It is basically a database of roughtly 2500 polymers, metals, ceramics, and natural materials with a seach and screen system built in. It also has the option of graphing materials indecies for optimization. As for specifically metalurgical needs, I had some experience using a program called THERMOCALC (I think ASPEN is a similar program) although they are spendy with all the moduals, however THERMOCALC can be used to construct phase diagrams of alloys (up to 20 elements I believe) as well as prodictions of such properties as difusibity of an element in the alloy ect. Don't know if this helps but hope it does.

Thanks for your help. I am now aware of the CES which is very very helpful. i will also checkup on the thermocalc which from your advice sounds interesting.

Another one to read up on is JMatPro. There are a bunch of papers on-line regarding the background of it all, which is educational in itself. The recommended paper depends upon what alloy is your focus (they had: al, mg, ni, ti, fe, and I believe Zr and Sn now too).www.jmatpro.com i believe you can download a demo there.

Working in alloy development, it lets me calculate materials properties taking into consideration various factors including heat treatment temps, targeting certain phases, (give it any chemical composition, and it lets me be very selective in how to run calculations - to target thermophysical/physical properties, CCT/TTT diagrams, phase transformations, stress-strain curves, and can't remember everything else. Hope it helps. Good to learn about anyhow.

oh yeah, one last note which i didn't realize at first - it can also do most of what ThermoCalc does - but goes way beyond that scope.. the thermodynamic calcs with profiling is only small part of bigger pic. I work with steels, and learned it also has just added quench properties and welding cycle for general steels - plus isothermal transfom. and phase formation on cooling.