Model
Type |
Displays the material models for Simulation
studies. Available material models depend on the active study type. |
Save model type in library |
Available for custom materials only.
Saves the model type for the selected custom material in the custom material
database.
For example, if you change the model type of a custom material
from a Linear Elastic Isotropic to Plasticity - von Mises, when you create a new
Nonlinear Simulation study, the model type for the custom material would be
Plasticity - von Mises.
You can view the location of the
custom material database Custom
Materials.sldmat in. For Show folders for,
select Material Databases.
You
cannot change the model type of a material from the SOLIDWORKS Materials
library. |
Units |
Sets the units for the numerical values of
material properties. |
Include creep
effect |
Available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, for
use with Simulation nonlinear studies. Activates the creep effect for the
selected material model. This option is not available for linear elastic
orthotropic and viscoelastic material models.
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No. of
constants |
Available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, only
for hyperelastic and viscoelastic material models in nonlinear studies. Sets the
number of the hyperelastic material constants used for the analysis to two, four,
or six. You can enter the material constants manually, or let the program
calculate them from test data.
Verify that you
select the proper number of material constants for your model. For example, if you
enter a hyperelastic material with six material constants, but you set
the No. of constants parameter to two,
only the first two material constants are used in the analysis leading to
erroneous results.
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Use curve data
to compute material constants |
Available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, only
for hyperelastic and viscoelastic material models in nonlinear studies.Calculates the material constants from available test data. You
can enter up to three data curves for: Simple Tension, Planar Tension or Pure
Shear, and Biaxial Tension. The number of
constants that you set above is the number of material constants that the
program calculates, when this option is selected.
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Reference
Geometry |
Available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, only
for the linear elastic orthotropic material model. Sets the reference geometry to
define the directions of the orthotropic material properties. Select a reference
plane, a reference axis, or a coordinate system.
|
Create
stress-strain curve |
Available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation, only
for nonlinear elastic, plasticity - von Mises, and plasticity - Tresca material
models. |
Category |
Displays the name of the category into which
the material is organized, as shown in the material tree. |
Name |
Displays the name of the selected material.
You can enter a name for custom defined materials. |
Default
failure criterion |
Available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation.
Selects the failure criterion to use for computing the factor of safety when
Automatic is selected for the criterion
in the Design Check PropertyManager.
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Description |
Provides space for a comment about the
material (maximum 256 characters). |
Source |
Specifies a source of reference for custom
defined materials. |
Sustainability |
Indicates if the material has a link to the sustainability
database, where sustainability criteria are defined.
For SOLIDWORKS Materials:
Defined |
Links to sustainability
database |
Undefined |
Does not link to sustainability
database |
For custom materials, you can link to a material in the
SOLIDWORKS Material library to use its sustainability criteria.
Material Name |
SOLIDWORKS Material to which the
custom material is linked |
Undefined |
Not linked to a material |
Select |
Allows the user to specify a
link to a material in the SOLIDWORKS Material library |
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