Materials management

Articles in this category

• 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
• 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