MaterialsandMaterialProperties CreatingMaterialsLecture CreatingMaterials.
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Creating Materials
Materials can be created for Mechanica analysis.
Basic Material Properties:
Functionally dependent properties
Generic Structural Thermal Miscellaneous Appearance User Defined
Symbolically/Table Driven
Structural Properties
Thermal Properties
Temperature Dependent CTE
LectureNotes
Basic Material Properties If a material does not exist, it can be created and added to the part and/or the Material Library. When creating isotropic materials the following attributes and properties can be defined:
Generic: Name, Description, Density Structural: Material Type, Poisson's Ratio, Young's Modulus, Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE), Failure Criterion, Fatigue characteristics Each of these properties can be set to a user entered numerical value or an existing parameter.
Thermal: Specific Heat Capacity, Thermal Conductivity Miscellaneous: Sheetmetal Properties, Surface Properties, Detailing cross hatching Appearance: Appearances specific to the material (color, highlights, bump maps, transparency, and so on) User Defined: User defined material level parameters
For non-isotropic material types, the direction specific Poisson's Ratio, Young's Modulus, CTE, Shear Modulus, and Thermal Conductivity are definable. Functionally Dependent Properties For Isotropic materials, in addition to being able to set values equal to parameters or numerical values, the values of Poisson's Ratio, Young's Modulus, and the CTE can be made functionally dependent on temperature if desired. Temperature dependent material properties can be defined symbolically or by using a table.
Symbolically Driven: With a symbolically driven function, any mathematical symbol recognized by Pro/ENGINEER (such as sin, abs, sqrt, and so on) can be used. Logic statements can also be employed in defining the function. Table Driven: With a table driven function, the values in the table can either be entered manually or imported from a text file.
Advanced Material Properties
In addition to basic material properties, more advanced material properties can be defined for materials. These advanced properties include non-linear Stress-Strain responses, Failure Criterion, and Fatigue characteristics. These advanced properties are beyond the scope of this topic and will not be covered here.
CreatingMaterialsDemonstration CreatingMaterials_demo.mp4 CreatingMaterialsProcedure
Procedure: Creating Materials
Scenario
Create a new material and store it in a model. CreatingMaterials create_mat.prt
Task 1. Change the application to Mechanica, and begin creating a new material.
1. Click Applications > Mechanica > OK. 2. Click Materials to open the Materials dialog box. to open the Material Definition dialog box. 3. Click New material
Task 2. Populate the Structural and Thermal material property fields.
1. If prompted with the Changing Parameter Units dialog box, click Interpret Value > In the future, do not show this dialog > OK. This dialog appears when you enter numerical values before changing the units for those values. 2. Select the Structural tab if necessary, and enter the following values:
Property
Value
Units
Name
AL7075T6
N/A
Density
2.81
g/cm^3
Symmetry
Isotropic
N/A
Stress-Strain Response
Linear
N/A
Poisson's Ratio
0.33
N/A
Young's Modulus
71.7
GPa
Coeff. of Thermal Expansion
2.36e-05
/C
Failure Criterion
Distortion Energy
N/A
Tensile Yield Stress
503
MPa
Note that the fields for Mechanisms Damping, Tensile Ultimate Stress, and Compressive Ultimate Stress are left empty.
3. Select the Thermal tab and type the following values:
Property
Value
Units
Symmetry
Isotropic
N/A
Specific Heat Capacity
960
m^2/(sec^2 K)
Thermal Conductivity
130
N/(sec C)
4. Verify that the Structural and Thermal tabs appear as shown in the figures below.
Task 3. Save the material to the model only, save the model, and erase it from memory.
1. In the Material Definition dialog box, click Save to Model. Note that the material exists only in the create_mat part and not in the Library.
2. Click OK to close the Materials dialog box. 3. Return to the Standard Pro/ENGINEER mode by clicking Applications > Standard. 4. Click Save from the main toolbar and click OK to save the model. 5. Click File > Erase > Current > Yes to erase the model from memory. This completes the procedure.
