PPLANE

Bulk Data Entry Defines the properties of plane strain elements (CTPSTN, CQPSTN, CTPSTS, and CQPSTS).

Format

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
PPLANE PID MID T            

Example

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
PPLANE 2 203 0.2            

Definition

Field Contents SI Unit Example
PID Unique plane element property identification number.

No default (Integer > 0)

  
MID Identification number of MAT1, MAT2, MAT3 or MATHE entry.

No default (Integer > 0)

  
T Thickness.

Default = 1.0 (Real ≥ 0.0 or blank)

  

Comments

  1. All plane element property entries must have unique ID numbers.
  2. The material cards for plane stress elements (CTPSTS/CQPSTS) to support are MAT1, MAT2 and MATS1. The support for other material cards is yet to be developed.
  3. The material cards for plane strain elements (CTPSTN/CQPSTN) to support are MAT1, MAT3, MATS1 and MATHE. The support for other material cards is yet to be developed.
  4. Plane strain elements defined via PPLANE are supported in linear static analysis and nonlinear (small and large displacement) static analysis. They are currently not supported for large displacement inertia relief analysis.

    Plane strain elements can also be defined via PSHELL (MID2=-1), but this method is only supported for linear static analysis.