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Comprehensive Simulation-Ready Materials Data

Extensive, in-depth materials data curated by materials specialists. Easily accessible from Ansys and third-party products. Broad range of properties and material types available.

High-Quality Materials Property Data Accessible Wherever Required

Inform critical decisions in design, simulation and manufacturing across the whole product lifecycle.

Access extensive unrivalled materials data anywhere you need it. Available in Ansys solvers, Ansys Granta products and CAD/CAE/PLM systems.

Technical, price and environmental properties for a broad range of materials.

  • Trusted Materials Data
    Trusted Materials Data
  • Wide range of Data
    Wide range of Data
  • Simulation-ready material models
    Simulation-ready material models
  • Easy access
    Easy access
  • Powerful searching and selection
    Powerful searching and selection
  • Curated by experts
    Curated by experts
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Benefits

Reduce time and costs

Save engineering time, find alternative materials, reduce development costs, avoid recalls and rework due to poor performance

 

Build better products

Optimal material + optimal design = Optimal product

More accurate simulations

More accurate material properties lead to more accurate simulation


 

Access Options

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Ansys Granta, CAD, and PLM tools

Discover our full range of materials property data in Ansys Granta software or access through CAD/PLM systems. Complete and comparable, with both a broad set of materials and in-depth data.

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Ansys-hosted data for Ansys Solvers

Connect to Ansys-hosted databases of specialist materials data directly from within your products – formatted and ready to use. Compatible with Ansys Sherlock, Ansys Discovery, Ansys Zemax OpticStudio.

 

Structural and modal analysis using Ansys Discovery
Materials Data for Simulation

Access a database of over 2,600 simulation-ready materials, directly embedded within your Ansys Flagship Simulation Solvers: Ansys MechanicalAnsys Electronics DesktopAnsys FluentAnsys Discovery.


Quick Specs

An unrivalled collection of materials information covering all major use cases - simulation, selection, validation, design, and more. 

  • Broad range of materials
  • In-depth simulation data
  • Curated by Experts
  • Design Data
  • Standards and Specifications Data
  • Test Data
  • Manufacturer data
  • Material Property Data
  • Environmental Data
  • Price Data

Application Case: Substituting a Material to Solver a Supply Issue

Using Ansys Granta core and advanced materials data.

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BUSINESS BENEFITS

Solve severe supplier shortages by finding alternative polymers with our Core and Advanced Materials Data in Ansys Granta Selector.

Facing PA66 supply shortages, customers turned to Ansys Granta® materials information, selection, and data management product collection. They accessed critical material data through Ansys MaterialUniverse® data base of materials (part of our Core offering), then used Ansys Granta Selector™ to find alternatives matching their requirements for price, flexural modulus, flammability, and injection molding. Our Advanced Polymers Materials Data identified specific supplier grades—delivering an actionable solution at lower cost.

March 2026

What's New

Ansys ModelCenter Connected Devices
Connected Materials

New Ansys-hosted offering to use materials data directly from key Ansys solvers. Easily access a vast library of reliable, diverse and trusted materials data and find materials by name, properties or simulation models, already formatted for your favourite solver. Currently available for Ansys Sherlock, Ansys Discovery and Ansys Zemax OpticStudio.

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Updates in material data libraries

Thousands of new records, datasets and simulation-ready properties added and updated across our expert-curated materials data libraries.

Resources

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Granta Materials Data

Explore our unrivalled data offering and discover how to access it

A Complete Solution for Engineering Materials Data

With a broad range of materials information, Granta Materials Data provides data that engineers need – when and where you need it. Users can leverage the latest materials data to search, compare and analyze. Simulation-ready data is seamlessly accessible within Ansys solvers, Ansys Granta software or integrated into a wide variety of CAD/CAE/PLM solutions.

Key Features

 

Available Data:

An unrivalled library of materials data

  • Core Data
  • Polymers
  • Metals
  • Aero
  • Composites
  • Electromagnetics
  • Restricted Substances and Sustainability
  • High Temperature Alloys
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Medical
  • ESDU
  • Eco

 

Easily accessible data:

Key data accessible wherever you need it

  • Ansys solvers
  • Granta software
  • Third party CAD/CAE/PLM systems

Our database of over 2,600 simulation-ready materials formatted for your needs. Directly embedded within your Ansys Flagship Simulation Solvers. Ansys MechanicalAnsys Electronics DesktopAnsys FluentAnsys Discovery and Ansys Motor-CAD.

Complete and comparable data in MaterialUniverse® for all main classes of commercially available engineering materials – metals, plastics, composites, ceramics, natural materials and more. Includes all relevant main material property classes for all materials – mechanical, electrical, physical, thermal, impact, magnetic, optical, durability, environmental, processing, price and more. Includes all engineering materials from Materials Data for Simulation plus thousands more.

Also includes the JAHM Curve Data table with simulation-ready temperature-dependent and other non-linear data for over 14,000 materials.

Extensive supplier-grade materials property data for over 100,000 polymers and 150,000 additives from UL Prospector. Supplemented with a range of simulation-ready non-linear data.

Alloy equivalency and technical simulation-ready property data from 40+ countries and international bodies in our Global Metal Specifications table, over 90,000 records.

Design data for boiler and pressure vessels in our ASME BPVC table, long duration creep and fatigue performance data in our NIMS table and test data on multiple grades of sheet steel, (including high strain rate testing) in Sheet Steels. Powder forged and MIM grades in Powder Metallurgy table

Authoritative simulation-ready aerospace design data from the MMPDS handbook – over 2,600+ records of design allowable properties for alloys and 400+ metal / fastener combinations.

Also included is specialist data on relevant coatings and their properties.

In-depth data on composite materials and their properties. Includes authoritative test data from MIL-Handbook-17, properties of commercially available composite materials in Global Composites (including constituent parts) and traceable composites data from the NCAMP and AGATE research projects in our Composites QED table.

9000+ simulation-ready records of manufacturer materials for electromagnetic applications at low and high frequency. Printed circuit board materials, soft and permanent magnetic materials and polymeric materials with frequency-dependent and magnetic response data. Includes all electromagnetic materials from Materials Data for Simulation, plus thousands more.

A combined package of materials, restricted substances, regulations, critical materials and sustainability data to support our Restricted Substances and Sustainability solutions – determining restricted substances content and risk in your products and assessing product environmental impact at early stages of design. 

Detailed simulation-ready temperature-dependent mechanical, thermal, creep, fatigue and fracture data on multiple alloys for usage in high temperature applications. Includes steels, stainless steels, nickel and cobalt alloys and cast irons at temperatures up to 1093°C (2000°F).

Comprehensive supplier-grade data on additive manufacturing machines and compatible materials (covering all main classes of material suitable for additive manufacturing), plus in-depth test data on commercially manufactured nickel and titanium based alloys.

Trusted and verified information on an array of medical materials data in ASM Medical Materials including cardiovascular, orthopedic, neurological and surgical applications

Human Biological Materials also provides mechanical properties of human tissues such as bone, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, circulatory and dental tissues.

Authoritative simulation-ready design data from the ESDU MMDH for European aerospace applications. Over 3,000 datasheets of materials in various forms, thicknesses and statistical basis.

Ansys Granta Materials – Access options

The Ansys reference materials data are available through a variety of methods to suit your needs and use cases. All materials data is available within and can be exported or transferred into a variety of Ansys and third party systems including Ansys Mechanical, Fluent, Electronics Desktop, Discovery, Sherlock, Motor-CAD and LS-DYNA.

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Materials Data for Simulation

Ansys Granta Connected Materials

Ansys Granta Selector

Ansys Granta MI

Core Data

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Polymers

 

Metals

 

 

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Aero

 

 

Composites

 

 

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Electromagnetics

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Restricted Substances and Sustainability

 

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High Temperature Alloys

 

 

Additive Manufacturing

 

 

Medical

 

 

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ESDU

 

 

Webinars

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Webinar Series

Just Add Materials to Webinar Series

This webinar series introduces MDS, how it works, and its impact on your simulation – along with a demo of how to access it – for Ansys Discovery, Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Electronics Desktop, and Ansys Motor-CAD.

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Granta Materials Data for Simulation

This new dataset is drawn from the industry-standard materials data library, providing the material property data required for structural analysis.

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Granta Materials Data

Materials experts, designers, engineers and simulation experts need top quality up-to-date technical, environmental and economic properties of materials – metals, plastics, composites, ceramics and more.

Case Study

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Learn about using Ansys Granta Materials Database for Simulation

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