pymats 0.1.1

A python module for handling materials

PyMats

PyMats is a material database app for Python. It is designed to help you manage and organize your materials and data. You can create, edit, and delete materials, as well as search for materials by name or ID. PyMats also allows you to copy materials from other collections and save them to your own collection. The api can be used to load material data to extternal applications, like excel. In additon the pymats module can be used in python directly to interact with the database.

Main Actions

• Search for materials by name or ID
• Load material data to external applications
• Interact with the database using the pymats module
• Get CAE Input Files for Ansys, LS-Dyna and Abaqus
• Compare Materials and find equivalents
• Generate Particular Material Apraisals (PMAs) automatically with custom requirements
• Since Excel is widley used, you can create a customized excel data table with your materials
• Future: "Engineering Data" for Ansys Workbench

The public collections and its materials are free to use. The material data is built from regression models and only approximate the data of the corresponding standards.

Getting started

Python Module

The package allows to load materials and determine properties at different design points.

Installation

The python module is available with pip install pymats

Example

from pymats import MaterialFactory`
material = MaterialFactory.from_config({"Idenitifier": "SA-723-2-2"})`

This will load the material via the api by default. See the configuration section for defining custom databases or data sources.

Using the API

The general endpoints /load_materials, /material/{mid}/ and /get_mids can just be used like any other api endpoints. Check the docu for information of returns. If an enpoint requires authentication, provide your personal remote token as ?user=<token>. The token can be placed in the env variable $REMOTE_TOKEN or your credentials are stored in ~/.pymats/credentials.json.

Using in Excel

With the token you have access to an excel addin based on OfficeJS. You can also use the token with a vba function. The addin can be downloaded via the download section

Using in Mathcad

With the token you can download a compiled dll you can include to your mathcad environment to get the related udf's.

Configuration

Environment Variables

$PYMATS_TOKEN: used for authentication