M. To create an orthotropic material
To create a 2D orthotropic material definition for use with orthotropic plate elements, use the following procedure.
You may want to set the input units to a familiar set of units for defining materials before creating a new material definition.
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Select the
Materials page in the
Analytical Modeling page control bar.
The Material - Whole Structure dialog and the Materials table open.
- In the Material - Whole Structure dialog, select the Orthotropic 2D tab.
- Click Create. The 2-D OrthoTropic Material Property dialog opens.
- Type a Title for the material.
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Type the material values:
- Type the Young's Modulus and Thermal Coefficients in the X direction.
- Type the Young's Modulus and Thermal Coefficients in the Y direction.
- Type the Density, Critical Damping, and Poisson's Ratio values. The same values are used in both X and Y directions.
- Type the Shear Modulus values for in-plane shear (Gxy), shear transverse to the local Y-Z direction (Gyz), and shear transverse to the local Z-X direction (Gzx).
- Click Add.