Included Calculator

A Quick and Easy Path to Calculate Properties

The Property Model Calculator offers users a quick and easy path to calculate any ordinary property available from a Thermo-Calc calculation, for example, amount of phase, phase constitution, transition temperature, or similar. Furthermore, the calculator allows users to calculate additional properties using models that take the ordinary properties as input, such as coarsening rate coefficients, martensite start temperature, and yield strength. In addition, users can write and implement your own models utilizing TC-Python, an SDK available for purchase with Thermo-Calc.

Support for Materials Design

The Property Model Calculator has been developed to facilitate the design of materials. Consequently, it is easy to study how different variables influence defined properties of interest (or design variables) and to cross-plot the result to identify optimums in, for example, composition. Additionally, the Property Model Calculator gives users the ability to perform uncertainty or sensitivity analyses, for instance, to study how variations in chemistry influence a specific property.

Property Models

Property Models are the engine that drive the Property Model Calculator. They simplify the process of setting up the calculations. They expand the functionality available in Thermo-Calc and make the software easier to use. Models can be used on their own or several can be evaluated simultaneously over a range of compositions to cross plot their results.

Property Model Libraries

The models are grouped within libraries in the software, a library being a group of similar models. All Thermo-Calc installations come with a General Model Library, which includes over a dozen models to help users to quickly set up some of the more common calculations using the Property Model Calculator.

Users can also purchase libraries for specific materials or create custom models and develop your own libraries.

Develop Your Own Models 

Users can develop their own models and seamlessly integrate them into Thermo-Calc using the TC-Python Property Model Framework, available in TC-Python, an SDK available for purchase with Thermo-Calc. In other words, you can customize the software to meet your modeling needs.

Models are developed using the easy-to-learn programming language Python™, and model development is assisted with advanced features such as debugging of the Property Models and autocompletion. 

Property Models developed in the TC-Python Property Model Framework automatically populate in Thermo-Calc, where they can be configured and run in the Graphical User Interface, giving users access to all of the powerful features and calculation types* available in Thermo-Calc.

Additionally, because this program uses the Python language, users can use any python library, such as numpy, scipy, or scikit-learn, within the Property Models, making model development quite powerful.

Models are automatically encrypted, for safe and secure file sharing. 

TC-Python requires a license in addition to a standard Thermo-Calc license. 

Property Model Framework in TC-Python

*Some calculation types, such as diffusion and precipitation simulations, require additional licenses for the relevant Add-on Modules.