/MAT/LAW51 (Iform = 1) (Obsolete)
Block Format Keyword This material is able to handle up to three elasto-plastic materials (solid, liquid, or gas). The material law is based on a diffusive interface technique.
LAW51 is based on equilibrium between each material present inside the element. Radioss computes and outputs a relative pressure . At each cycle:
Total pressure can be calculated with external pressure:
- P
 - Positive for a compression and negative for traction.
 
Hydrostatic stresses are computed from Polynomial EOS:
Where, means that the EOS is linear for an expansion and cubic for a compression.
By default process is adiabatic . To enable thermal computation, refer to 6.
Deviatoric stresses are computed with a Johnson-Cook model:
Format
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Definition
| Field | Contents | SI Unit Example | 
|---|---|---|
| mat_ID | Material identifier. (Integer, maximum 10 digits)  | 
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| unit_ID | Unit identifier. (Integer, maximum 10 digits)  | 
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| mat_title | Material title. (Character, maximum 100 characters)  | 
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| Iform | Formulation flag. (Integer)  | 
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| Pext | External pressure. 2 Default = 0 (Real)  | 
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| Kinematic viscosity shear 
                                                  
                                                  . 3 Default = 0 (Real)  | 
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| Kinematic viscosity (volumetric), 
                                                  
                                                   which corresponds to
                                                  Stokes Hypothesis. 3 Default = 0 (Real)  | 
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| Initial volumetric fraction. 4 (Real)  | 
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| Initial density. (Real)  | 
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| Initial energy per unit
                                                  volume. (Real)  | 
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| Hydrodynamic cavitation pressure. 5 If fluid material ( ), then default = . If solid material ( ), then default = -1e30. (Real)  | 
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| Initial pressure. (Real)  | 
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| Hydrodynamic coefficient. (Real)  | 
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| Hydrodynamic coefficient. (Real)  | 
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| Hydrodynamic coefficient. (Real)  | 
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| Hydrodynamic coefficient. (Real)  | 
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| Hydrodynamic coefficient. (Real)  | 
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Elasticity shear modulus.
 (Real)  | 
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| Plasticity yield stress. (Real)  | 
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| Plasticity hardening
                                                  parameter. (Real)  | 
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| Plasticity hardening exponent. Default = 1.0 (Real)  | 
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Strain rate coefficient.
 Default = 0.00 (Real)  | 
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| Reference strain rate. If , no strain rate effect (Real)  | 
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| Temperature exponent. Default = 1.00 (Real)  | 
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| Initial temperature. Default = 300 K (Real)  | 
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Melting temperature.
 Default = 1030 (Real)  | 
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| Maximum temperature. Default = 1030 (Real)  | 
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| Specific heat per unit of volume. 7 (Real)  | 
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| Failure plastic strain. Default = 1030 (Real)  | 
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| Plasticity maximum stress. Default = 1030 (Real)  | 
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| Thermal conductivity coefficient 1. 8 (Real)  | 
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| Thermal conductivity coefficient 2. 8 (Real)  | 
                                                  
Example
#---1----|----2----|----3----|----4----|----5----|----6----|----7----|----8----|----9----|---10----|
/MAT/LAW51/1
99.99% Water + 0.01% Air-MULTIMAT:AIR+WATER+COPPER,units{kg,m,s,Pa}
#(output is relative pressure to Pext=1E+5Pa)
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                    Material Law No 51. MULTI-MATERIAL SOLID LIQUID GAS -ALE-CFD-SPH               
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#     Blank format
 
#    IFORM
         1
#---Global parameters------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#              P_EXT                  NU               LAMDA
                1E+5                   0                   0
#---Material#1:AIR(PerfectGas)---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#            ALPHA_1             RHO_0_1               E_0_1             P_MIN_1               C_0_1
              0.0001                 1.2             2.5E+05                   0               -1E+5
#              C_1_1               C_2_1               C_3_1               C_4_1               C_5_1
                   0                   0                   0                 0.4                 0.4
#                G_1           SIGMA_Y_1                BB_1                 N_1
                   0                   0                   0                   0
#               CC_1     EPSILON_DOT_0_1
                   0                   0
#               CM_1                T_10             T_1MELT            T_1LIMIT             RHOCV_1
                   0                   0                   0                   0                   0
#      EPSILON_MAX_1         SIGMA_MAX_1               K_A_1               K_B_1
                   0                   0                   0                   0
#---Material#2:WATER(Linear_Incompressible)--------------------------------------------------------#
#            ALPHA_2             RHO_0_2               E_0_2             P_MIN_2               C_0_2
              0.9999              1000.0                   0                   0                   0
#              C_1_2               C_2_2               C_3_2               C_4_2               C_5_2
             2.25E+9                   0                   0                   0                   0
#                G_2           SIGMA_Y_2                BB_2                 N_2
                   0                   0                   0                   0
#               CC_2     EPSILON_DOT_0_2
                   0                   0
#               CM_2                T_20             T_2MELT            T_2LIMIT             RHOCV_2
                   0                   0                   0                   0                   0
#      EPSILON_MAX_2         SIGMA_MAX_2               K_A_2               K_B_2
                   0                   0                   0                   0
#---Material#3:OFHC COPPER(elastic plastic solid:Mie_Gruneisen+JCook)------------------------------#
#            ALPHA_3             RHO_0_3               E_0_3             P_MIN_3               C_0_3
                 0.0              8930.0                   0                   0                   0
#              C_1_3               C_2_3               C_3_3               C_4_3               C_5_3
           1.389E+11           1.379E+11          -0.351E+11                0.97                0.97
#                G_3           SIGMA_Y_3                BB_3                 N_3
             47.7E+9              120E+6              292E+6                0.31
#               CC_3     EPSILON_DOT_0_3
               0.025                   1
#               CM_3                T_30             T_3MELT            T_3LIMIT             RHOCV_3
                1.09                 300                1790                   0          3.42019E+6
#      EPSILON_MAX_3         SIGMA_MAX_3               K_A_3               K_B_3
                   0              1.2E+9                   0                   0
#---1----|----2----|----3----|----4----|----5----|----6----|----7----|----8----|----9----|---10----|
                                      Comments
- Numerical diffusion can be improved using the second order method for volume fraction convection, /ALE/MUSCL. The previous /UPWIND used to limit diffusion is now obsolete.
 - Radioss
                                                  computes and outputs a relative pressure 
                                                  
                                                  . 
However, total pressure is essential for energy integration ( ). It can be computed with the external pressure flag Pext.
leads to .
This means that if Pext = 0, the computed pressure is also the total pressure: .
 - Kinematic viscosities are global and is
                                                  not specific to each material. It allows computing
                                                  viscous stress tensor:Where,
- Cinematic shear viscosity flag
 - Cinematic volumetric viscosity flag
 
 - Volumetric fractions enable the sharing
                                                  of elementary volume within the three different
                                                  materials.
For each material must be defined between 0 and 1.
Sum of initial volumetric fractions must be equal to 1.
For automatic initial fraction of the volume, refer to the /INIVOL card.
 - 
                                                  
                                                   flag is the minimum
                                                  value for the computed pressure 
                                                  
                                                  . It means that total
                                                  pressure is also bounded to:
For fluid materials and detonation products, must remain positive to avoid any tensile strength so must be set to .
For solid materials, default value = 1e-30 is suitable but may be modified.
 - Heat contribution is computed only if the
                                                  thermal card is associated to the material law
                                                  (/HEAT/MAT).
In this case, and the parameters for thermal diffusion are read for each material:
For solids and liquids, for perfect gas:
 - The temperature evolution in the Johnson-Cook model is computed with the flag , even if the thermal card (/HEAT/MAT) is not defined.
 - Thermal conductivity, 
                                                  
                                                  , is linearly dependent
                                                  on the temperature:
 - Material tracking is possible through
                                                  animation
                                                  files:
/ANIM/BRIC/VFRAC (All material volumetric fractions)
 - As of version 2023, this option is obsolete and should be replaced by Iform=12.