Property

Analysis > Property

This tool is used to define properties for Solids, Fluids, Shells, Beam, Bar and Rigid Elements. The parameters of the property dialog will be displayed based on the defined solutions.

Table 1.
Entity Type Behavior
Solid Solid Isotropic, Orthotropic, Gasket, Acoustic, AnIsotropic, Cohesive, Continuum Shell Composite
Fluid
Shell Shell Isotropic, Composite
Membrane Isotropic
Rigid Body
Plotel
Axisymmetric
Acoustic Infinite, Adaptive Layer, Absorber
Plane Strain
Surface
Plane Stress
Bar Bar
Beam
Truss
Advanced
Rigid Body
Rigid Bar Rbe2
Rbe3

Description

Property dialog is used to define following

  1. Thickness for shell elements.
    • The thickness of the shell can be computed, from the solid body by selecting the appropriate method (face-face, face-node, element-node, node-node) in the Calculate using option and clicking the Calculate button.

  2. Section properties for bar and beam elements.
    • The section of bar and beam elements can be viewed by selecting the respective bodies in model tree. Visualization is supported for rectangle, circle and hollow circle, C, T, L, Plus, I, Tapered Beam and Tapered Pipe cross sections only.

    • If the local coordinate system (Sys_Coord_ID) is referred in property, bar and beam section will orient as per the Y and Z axis of the local coordinate system.
    • The bar and beam section orientations can be viewed based on the required solver type by using the Beam section orientation option in the preference dialog.
  3. Element types for Solid, Gasket and Shell elements.
  4. Element types and DOF of the RBE's.
    • The RBE3 independent nodes can be defined with individual DOF and weight factor. This is supported only for OptiStruct solver input file export.