As engineering materials are becoming increasingly more complex, more sophisticated material models are needed to describe the material behaviour. These material models use properties that are more difficult to measure. The conventional material characterisation techniques based on analytical formulas are no longer able to provide these properties.

MItools^TM is a versatile software package for determining elastic material properties from the resonant frequencies of a set of test specimens. The power of MItools^TM lies in the use of finite element models to extract the elastic properties from the test data.

The unique combination of experimental data and FE-modelling in MItools^TM offers a powerful tool to determine the elastic properties of advanced engineering materials. MItools^TM provides this novel technology in a flexible and comprehensive way accessible to the non-specialist.

• A general MNET implementation of the resonant-based identification of bulk elastic properties of isotropic materials and in-plane elastic properties of orthotropic materials.
• Automatic mesh generation functions for homogeneous or layered test specimens with a beam, plate, or cylindrical geometry.
• A fully customisable and easy-to-use graphical user interface that makes the capabilities of the MNET techniques accessible to the non-specialist.
• A powerful graphical module that animates the vibration modes of the test specimens, illustrates the variation of the apparent properties, plots the results of a sensitivity analysis, etc.
• Integrated scripting language that allows the automation of nearly any resonant-based material identification routine.

• MItools^TM processes the data of all the specimens simultaneously. By averaging the measurement noise of all the tested specimens.
• MItools^TM can provide more reliable global estimates of the elastic properties.
• The ability to detect the anisotropy of materials. For example, the methods implemented in MItools^TM are sensitive enough to detect the anisotropy of rolled metal sheets.
• The ability to identify the elastic properties of the constituent materials of laminated or coated materials.
• The ability to use any combination of specimen geometries and measured resonant frequencies to determine elastic properties.
• Automated data processing using the integrated scripting language.

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