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The database and tools are divided into three levels so that students can access a suitable level of information as they progress through their studies, from pre-university up to postgraduate courses.
Ansys Granta EduPack
Enhance your Materials Teaching
Ansys Granta EduPack—formerly CES EduPack—is a unique set of teaching resources that help academics enhance courses related to materials across engineering, design, science and sustainable development.
SUPPORT FOR MATERIALS EDUCATION
Granta EduPack, formerly CES EduPack, is a unique set of teaching resources to support materials education.
Granta EduPack provides support to enhance undergraduate materials education. EduPack includes a database of materials and process information, materials selection tools and a range of supporting resources. EduPack is divided into three levels so that students can access a suitable level of information as they progress through their studies.
Granta EduPack has also been designed to support a wide variety of teaching styles, from the design- and science-led approaches to problem-based teaching.
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Comprehensive Database of Materials and Processes
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Introduce Sustainability in Engineering Design
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Powerful Visualization and Selection Tools
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Interactive Projects, Exercises and Lectures
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Visualize Material Properties -
Browse Like an Interactive Textbook -
Add Models with Synthesizer
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Supports Leading Materials Textbooks -
Ashby Materials Selection Methodology -
Materials Science and Engineering Database
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Material Universe: Data on 4,000 Materials -
Eco Audit for Engineering Design -
Sustainability and Eco-Design Databases
July 2023
What's New
We’re supporting students to learn to make the best decisions around materials and sustainability.
Environmental and Social Data Updates
Improved material selection for environmental performance with updates to CO2 footprint and embodied energy in MaterialUniverse™. Updated data on Nations in Conflict within the Sustainability databases to enhance social sustainability analyses.
Improved Help & Support for Users
Use our new help site to get the most out of Granta EduPack - directly linked to the software. Our improved search function makes finding key topics easy. Find out how to use key features and the enhanced material selection or just how to use Granta EduPack best.
Industry Data Updates
We've updated the Global Polymers Plastics table, including new test data, manufacturer data (SABIC, Kuraray, MOCOM), environmental end-of-life attributes, and non-linear data for simulation.
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Granta EduPack: supporting materials education across all years of study
Granta EduPack provides the tools to help engage your students by using interactive, visual software. It is available in two versions: Granta EduPack, which contains all data and tools; and Granta EduPack Introductory, which contains a subset of data and tools intended for teaching introductory courses.
Both versions are divided into three levels so that students have access to appropriate materials information as their studies progress. At all levels, Granta EduPack provides students with a comprehensive database of materials and process information that is always kept up to date. In addition, self-study resources are available to stretch stronger students and to help others catch up, providing a flexible tool for every educator to utilize.
Key Features: Core Data and Tools
Essential features to support materials education, included in both Granta EduPack and Granta EduPack Introductory.
- Comprehensive Materials Information
- Materials Selection
- Eco Audit Tool
- Learning and Teaching Resources
Key Features: Advanced Data and Tools
Enhanced features to support advanced learning and capstone design projects, only available in the full version of Granta EduPack
- Advanced Data
- Synthesizer Tool
- Advanced Materials Comparison
- Enhanced Eco Audit Tool
The Granta EduPack databases contain an unrivalled library of materials information. Draw on materials data at a level suitable for your students and courses.
Granta EduPack contains powerful materials selection and charting tools. These are designed to make it easy to learn and apply the rational selection methodology pioneered by Prof. Mike Ashby at the University of Cambridge.
Help students think critically and evaluate the environmental impact of a product. With the Eco Audit Tool, students can test design scenarios and understand the importance behind materials and process choices.
Find inspiration for your teaching and access case studies, exercises, active teaching packages and more.
Granta EduPack includes models for predicting the properties of hybrid materials, enabling comparison with conventional materials and for predicting part costs. You can add your own models and apply the results to property charts.
Additional databases featuring industry standard data for advanced study and capstone projects.
Granta EduPack includes models for predicting the properties of hybrid materials, enabling comparison with conventional materials and for predicting part costs. You can add your own models and apply the results to property charts.
Set reference materials, adjust nearness settings to find similar materials, and view material options in a comparison table
Consider cost modelling within life cycle comparisons, allowing trade-offs between economic and environmental considerations.
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It's vital to Ansys that all users, including those with disabilities, can access our products. As such, we endeavor to follow accessibility requirements based on the US Access Board (Section 508), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the current format of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT).