Add Material dialog
This dialog is used to add materials.
Opens when the Add material tool is selected in the Sections and Materials group on the Catalog ribbon tab.
Standard Type
Property | Value |
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Specification | Select the type of material used from the drop-down list of materials. |
Name | Select the material name from the list. Some materials, such as steel, have multiple entries representing different material grades. |
Custom Type
Property | Value |
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Specification | Select the appropriate material specification to which this custom material will be added. |
Name | Type a name used to later identify the custom material. |
E | (Steel only) Specifies the modulus of elasticity (i.e., Young's Modulus). |
G | (Steel only) Specifies the shear modulus. |
Possion | "Poisson's ratio",ν, the ratio of transverse strain to strain in the direction of load. |
Density | The weight density of the material. |
Alpha | Coefficient of thermal expansion. |
Damp | Damping ratio to be used in computing the modal damping by the composite damping method in a dynamic analysis when CDAMP has been specified. Damping must be in the range of 0.001 to 0.990. |
Fy | (Steel only) Yield strength. |
Fu | (Steel only) Ultimate tensile strength. |
Ry | (Steel only) Yield strength ratio |
Rt | (Steel only) Tensile strength ratio |
Fcu | (Concrete only) Ultimate compressive strength of concrete. |