Materials are everywhere in our day-to-day world. From household plastics and cleaning products, textiles and product packaging, electronics, and the buildings around us, materials are integral parts of modern life.

Many common materials are created using petrochemicals, which are derived from resources like petroleum and natural gas. SABIC, based in Saudi Arabia, is one of the world’s largest petrochemical manufacturers, with customers in more than 140 countries and a 28,000-person global workforce. SABIC relies on strong collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers, universities, and businesses like Altair to efficiently create top-quality materials and innovate in material design and production, using Altair solutions for advanced simulation, optimization, and finite element analysis (FEA) preprocessing and post-processing.

Powering Product Development

In the competitive field of product development, determining what materials to use is a key success factor. Materials not only need to be high-quality, durable, and cost-effective, they often need to be tailored specifically for different applications and industries. Today’s technology-driven material modeling simulates the real world, predicting component behaviors and optimizing material properties to create the best possible product. By designing and testing virtual materials before producing the real thing, organizations save time and money, quickly iterating for faster innovation.

Altair users get all the materials information they need, including SABIC’s extensive polymer material data, in Altair® Material Data Center™, with accurate, high-quality data about a broad selection of different materials and their properties. Material Data Center provides a comprehensive ecosystem for managing the entire life cycle of proprietary material data and related information, with a large set of high-quality reference data with full traceability back to the source. It’s flexible and scalable with an intuitive user experience (standalone or through other Altair tool interfaces), and it includes metals, polymers, and composites. Users can explore structural, fatigue, fluid, thermal, and electromagnetic material properties, as well as data specific to various manufacturing processes.

Sharing Information to Fuel Innovation

The inclusion of SABIC’s material engineering data in Material Data Center enhances the depth and quality of information available to Altair users and facilitates accurate, optimized manufacturing simulations. “We are extremely excited to have SABIC’s polymer material data included in the Altair Material Data Center,” said Subhransu S. Mohapatra, material data leader, specialties, SABIC, when the two companies announced their alliance. “Altair customers will now have the ability to access SABIC’s material engineering data to further enhance the depth and quality of information required for manufacturing simulation.” 

Martin Solina, vice president, manufacturing solutions, Altair, agreed that the partnership is a significant benefit for Altair users, giving them unprecedented access to a vast array of SABIC material data. “This seamless integration eliminates the need for external searches or manual data entry, allowing users to efficiently browse, select, and incorporate SABIC's diverse material portfolio into their designs with just a few clicks.” The direct availability of this comprehensive material information streamlines workflows, improves design accuracy, and accelerates the product development process.

Learn more about SABIC and Material Data Center.