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What's new?

January 2021 Release

New Records Added

Added or updated more than 3,000 tool steel records based on UNS, ASTM, ASME, BIS, BSI, JIS standards data, with a focus on the following alloy families:

Tool Steel

• Mold steel and special-purpose tool steel (664)
• Cold-work tool steel (1124)
• Miscellaneous or unclassified (45)
• Hot-work tool steel (568)
• High-speed tool steel (646)

Software Update: Granta MI 12

GRANTA MI 12 accelerates the process to “digitalize” the materials information, in order to reduce risk, drive innovation, and save time and cost. There are new features for deploying materials knowledge enterprise-wide, while ensuring consistency, accuracy, and complete traceability. There are enhanced tools for visualization and analysis of test data, managing product risk, and ensuring robust data management workflows. One can combine proprietary materials data with the most comprehensive available set of materials reference data, now updated, to create a single 'gold source'
• http://www.grantadesign.com/products/mi/whatsnew.htm (previous releases can be accessed at the bottom of the page)
• https://mygranta.grantadesign.com/myAccount useful resources can be found in your My Granta account

Fall 2018 Release

New Records Added

Added or updated more than 14,500 records based on UNS, ASTM, ASME, BIS, BSI, JIS standards data, with a focus on the following alloy families:

Ferrous

• Carbon Steel (2101)
• Alloy Steel (2061)
• High Alloy Steel (2114)
• Iron (68)
• Iron Base Superalloy (20)
• Iron Cast (151)
• Tool Steels (120)

Nonferrous

• Aluminum Wrought (539)
• Aluminum Cast (332)
• Aluminum Unalloyed (24)
• Copper Wrought (3303)
• Copper Cast (651)
• Cobalt (56)
• Lead (323)
• Magnesium Wrought (17)
• Magnesium Cast (54)
• Magnesium Unclassified (48)
• Miscellaneous (374)
• Nickel (890)
• Refractory (145)
• Tin (67)
• Titanium (136)
• Zinc (200)
• Welding filler (604)

January 2016 Release

New Standards Added

Added or updated nearly 7,656 nonferrous and ferrous standards specifications based upon recent ASME, ASTM, BIS, BSI, and JIS standards data, with a focus on the following alloy families:

• ASME Standards:
• Ferrous updates - 2,793
• ASTM Standards:
• Nonferrous updates:
• Copper - 3,176
• Cobalt - 9
• Gold - 23
• Lead - 12
• Miscellaneous Unclassified - 27
• Molybdenum - 23
• Nickel - 597
• Niobium - 30
• Palladium - 29
• Silver - 61
• Tantalum - 20
• Tin - 18
• Tungsten - 28
• Zinc - 99
• Zirconium - 47
• BIS Standards:
• Ferrous updates - 112
• Nonferrous updates:
• Titanium - 34
• Aluminum - 76
• Copper - 60
• BSI Standards:
• Ferrous updates - 374
• JIS Standards:
• Ferrous updates - 8




September 2015 Release




New Standards Added

Added or updated nearly 3,300 nonferrous standards specifications based upon recent ASTM and ASME standards data, with a focus on the following alloy families:

• Aluminum
• Cobalt
• Copper
• Magnesium
• Nickel
• Titanium
• Zirconium
Added more than 1,500 ferrous standards specifications based upon recent ASME standards documents.

Find Standards Faster

This release includes two new features to help you more easily find specific alloys of interest:


• A new Pre-Defined Search, titled Advanced Search by Standard, lets you quickly use the best attributes to find information about standards.
• A new field of information, Specification Year, allows you to more easily find the most up-to-date content.

For example, to find the most recent Nickel alloys as stated in ASME standards, follow these instructions:

1. Click on Advanced Search in the upper right-hand corner of your window. Next, click on Advanced Search by Standard in the list of pre-defined searches. Fill in all of the information you are interested in, as illustrated in the screenshot below:



2. Next, click Search Now to see all of the records in the database that meet your criteria.






February 2015 Release

New & Updated Content

• Standards Records
  • More than 1,000 newly added Aluminum Standards from ASTM and ASME
• Commercial Grades Records
  • Over 500 newly added records, based on recently published Alloy Digest datasheets, and manufacturers’ websites
  • More than 200 updates to records originally published in Woldman's Engineering Alloys, 9th edition
• Chemical Composition Data
  • Enriched chemical composition data, allowing for more comprehensive results when conducting searches by chemistry range, and when using the Substitute feature to find alloys with similar compositions
  • Base Element is now provided for 99% of all records
  • Remainder Percent - is now calculated when not specified, including a note indicating when the value has been calculated

Enhanced Search & Navigation

• Contents Tree - The tree has been updated to provide a more intuitive hierarchical scheme for browsing and locating Standards and Commercial Grades information.
• New Search Attributes - In Advanced Search, use these attributes alone or in combination with others to find desired alloy information.
  • Alloy Family - e.g., Alloy Steel, Aluminum
  • Alloy Group - e.g., Chromium molybdenum steel, Wrought aluminum
  • Alloy Subgroup - e.g., 4118/ 4120/ 4121, (2xxx series) aluminum-copper
  • Standards Body - e.g., ASTM, BS, SAE, etc.





Updated Granta MI Software

With this release, the software platform has been upgraded to GRANTA MI Version 7. In addition to general performance and usability improvements, the latest version of the software includes:

• Improvement to Charts
  • All functional data charts in MI:Viewer now support zooming and interactive data read-outs. Moving the mouse over the chart will read out the values of the co-ordinate axes at the mouse position. Left clicking and dragging will zoom the chart; the Reset Zoom button below the chart will restore the chart to its original view.
  • The ability to compare functional data charts across the database has been introduced on this version of Granta MI. All datasheet charts now feature a Comparison Chart button which allows the chart to be added to the Comparison Chart if it is compatible.
• Performance Improvements
  • Improved performance of the record list when adding a large number of records to a report.
  • Improved speed of attribute selection for X-Y charts when working with a large number of records.
  • Improved performance of generating a comparison report.
• Usability Improvements
  • Usability improvement to filtering records in comparison table reports means that selecting and deselecting attributes now works in a more intuitive manner.
  • A new Refine Search button has been added to the toolbar at the top of the Search Results page which works in the same way as Refine in the Search Criteria panel, returning you back to the search page so that you can change your search criteria.

Subscription information

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Feedback

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Please email your comments or suggestions to materialsinfo@asminternational.org or call ASM International at 440-338-5151, ext. 0 during business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm U.S. Eastern time).

Become a contributing author

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The ASM Alloy Center Database™ Alloy Finder data is published by ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, USA (www.asminternational.org), and Granta Design, Cambridge, UK (www.grantadesign.com).

ASM International, founded in 1913 as the American Society for Metals, is the world's largest association of metals-centric materials scientists and engineers with over 30,000 members worldwide. ASM is dedicated to informing, educating and connecting the materials community to solve problems and stimulate innovation around the world.

Granta Design is the world leader in materials information technology. Granta software tools, materials data, and materials database solutions help engineering enterprises to: manage critical materials data, enable better materials decisions, design for environmental objectives and regulations, and provide materials support for engineering design, analysis, and simulation.

What's in this database?

Alloy Finder content is organized by alloy group, country, and organization (both manufacturers and standards organizations). Obsolete alloy names, current trade names, and designations as specified in standards are included.

Data is sourced from the following publications:

• Alloy Digest, ASM International, Updates through September, 2016
• Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Volume 02.02, 2015
• Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Volume 02.04, 2015
• ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) Section II-Materials-Part B-Nonferrous Material Specifications. 2013
• Manufacturer’s Data Sheets
• Woldman's Engineering Alloys 9th ed. J. Frick Editor, ASM International 2000 — Nearly 200 records have been updated based upon manufacturers' online datasheets
• Worldwide Guide to Equivalent Irons and Steels, 5th ed. ASM International 2006
• Worldwide Guide to Equivalent Nonferrous Alloys, 4th ed. ASM International 2001

Users can search the database by chemistry ranges, countries, alloy producers, and specifications. The Similar Alloys feature allows users to find alloys with similar chemical compositions. The database also includes links to manufacturer and standards organization websites.

Sample uses of Alloy Finder include:

• Find the Japanese designation for 1040 steel
• Find an alloy with trade name TATA CRW
• Find alloys with a chemistry similar to TATA CRW
• Identify all the ASTM standards that specify 316 stainless steel
• From a data sheet, link to the manufacturer's web site
• Use the Advanced Search to enter chemical composition ranges and find alloys with those ranges