Do for material properties what STEP files do for 3D geometry.
I've only made a rough demo so far. If you would find it useful please leave a comment or message me.
Check out tutorials/xplane_airframes.ipynb for a demonstration of how to use the package and why it's useful for engineers.
So far, I've implemented the following:
- A prototype of a material database record in YAML:
materials_data/Al_6061.yaml. So far this is only a limited subset of properties for a single material. - The core datastructures + logic for representing a material property, and doing interpolation for state-dependent properties:
materials/property.py. - The core logic for loading material data from a YAMl file into a python object:
materials/material.py. - Some unit tests for the above.
Provide for the interchange of information on material properties between CAD software, FEA software, and custom analysis scripts. I spend a lot of time manually transcribing material properties from MatWeb or MMPDS into SolidWorks and my own python scripts. This process is tedious and error prone - I'd like to make it better, and I imagine other engineers would appreciate this too. It would be valuable for a project to have a single (verified) database of material properties, which all of the project's computational tools (CAD, FEA, analysis scripts) reference.
Format for recording properties of a material. Use a standard syntax (YAML)?
Import from MatWeb.
Convert to/from formats used by major CAD/FEA packages.
Access material properties from python, MATLAB, Excel(?).