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©2026 ANSYS, Inc. / Proprietary. Do Not Share. 17 New in 2026 R1 – Materials Data Business & User Benefits What's New • Latest data for material selection, comparison and use in Granta MI and Granta Selector –technical, economic and environmental material performance • Advanced specialist data on key materials - export simulation-ready data to Ansys applications • Core Data (MaterialUniverse®): New high performance polymers. Updates to food contact suitability, price, restricted substances and heat of combustion data. New exporter for Thermal Desktop • Additive Manufacturing: 400+ new materials and additive manufacturing machines • Aero: Multiple new coatings. Update to MMPDS-2025 including new records for aluminum and nickel alloys and revised fatigue curves • Composites: 70+ new laminates, resins and fibers, enhanced data to enable searching/selection on fiber-specific properties plus enhanced linking • Electromagnetics: Now over 14,000 records with 600+ new electrical steels from voestalpine plus new PCB grades and magnetic materials from multiple manufacturers. • ESDU and High Temperature Alloys: Supports LS-DYNA export for selected models. • Metals: 2600+ Global Metal Specifications records updated with the latest Stahldat SX data plus 80,000+ records enhanced with new calculated data for key properties supporting basic simulation. ASME BPVC II-D data updated to 2025 edition, with LS-DYNA export for selected models. • Medical: 2100+ new 510(k) and PMA devices, 1700+ PMA supplements • Polymers: Now over 107,000 polymer and 15,000 additive records with latest data from UL Prospector. Improved coverage of commercial grades with simulation-ready data on temperature- dependent properties from Mocom, Kuraray, 3M and SABIC. New exporters to Ansys Sherlock and Ansys Electronics Desktop plus improvements to frequency-dependent data.