Assign Materials

Create Material with Strain Life and Crack Growth – Total Life properties.

  1. Click the Material tool.
    Figure 1.
    The Assign Material dialog opens.
  2. Activate the checkbox next to the part Base and Fillet.
  3. Click the My Material tab.
  4. Click .
    A new material named Mat_EN("n") is created.
  5. Set the Elastic Modulus to 155000.
  6. Set the Standard Error of Log(elastic strain) (SEe) to 0.0.
  7. Set the Standard Error of Log(plastic strain) (SEp) to 0.0.
  8. Switch to Crack Properties and review the default properties.
  9. Click Plot & Save.
    Figure 2.
    Figure 3.
  10. Right-click on the newly created material and select Add to Assign Material List.
  11. Click the Assign Material Data tab.
  12. For Base and Fillet, select Mat_EN("n") from the Material drop-down menu.
  13. Accept the default parameters in the Assign Material Data tab.
    Figure 4.
  14. Exit the dialog.