Materials management

• How to create a custom material
  A guide on how to create a custom reusable material, to complete missing features of an existing material or to insert a completely new material into the NextGen database
• Material characteristics customization
  Find out how to modify on-the-fly one or more material characteristics for a specific component
• Materials set feature and its usage
  The material sets enable faster prototyping and design of pressure vessels and heat exchangers, as well as minimizing possible input problems
• Why is an ASME material unusable at a certain temperature despite having the allowable and yield strength values?
  Within ASME, it can happen to receive an error when selecting a material due to too high a temperature
• Why do some ASME materials lack the yield strength, tensile strength, elasticity or thermal expansion values?
  An explanation on the lack of some values in the NextGen ASME databases that are instead present in the ASME II Part D tables
• How to import an ASME VIII material from Division 1 to Division 2 or vice-versa
  To import any material from Division 1 into the ASME VIII Division 2 material database or vice versa, simply follow these instructions
• Request to insert materials not available in the NextGen database
  While containing several thousands of materials, NextGen databases may not contain one or more necessary items. In this article we illustrate how it is possible to overcome the absence of materials and how to request their addition.

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