1. Innovation Intelligence ® Section 17 Material & Property Definition

2. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Material Definition Materials can be defined using either Applications | Analysis | Structural | Material (or) Applications | Analysis | Thermal | Material for Structural or Thermal Analysis respectively. Supported Material Categories Metal Rubber Gasket Composite Features Stress – Strain – Temperature (or) Stress – Strain curve can be defined. Gasket Loading and Unloading curves can be defined.

3. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Material Management Materials defined can be stored into SimLab database and also materials from database can be loaded into current Application.

4. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Material Transfer Materials defined can be exported in the form of XML and also material definitions in the form of XML can be loaded into SimLab database (or) current application.

5. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Property Definition Element property can be defined using this tool - Applications | Analysis | Structural | Property Property definition is categorized as follows Solid Shell Bar Rigid Bar Membrane Rigid Bar Various Element types corresponding to solvers can be selected.

6. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Property – Ansys Element Types Ansys Solid and Shell element types are supported extensively. These element types can be specified in Property Dialog. Several Ansys Solid and Shell element types are listed in Property Dialog by turning on the toggle “Use Ansys Element types” in View | Preference | Solver.

7. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Property Definition Shell Element PropertyMembrane Element Property Rigid Body Property

8. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Rigid Bar Property Definition RBE3 Property RBE2 Property

9. Copyright © 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved. Bar Property Definition Option to calculate bar properties (Area, Moment of Inertia, Torsional Moment of Inertia) for various sections is available.