orthotropicSolidProperties Element

Orthotropic material properties for 3D materials

Namespace: Empty

Schema: Empty

Type

orthotropicSolidPropertiesType

Parents

material

materialType

Children

Name	Occurrences	Description
All
E1		Young's modulus in material direction 1 [N/m^2]
E2		Young's modulus in material direction 2 [N/m^2]
E3		Young's modulus in material direction 3 [N/m^2]
eps1c	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for compression in material direction 1
eps1t	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for tension in material direction 1
eps2c	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for compression in material direction 2
eps2t	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for tension in material direction 2
eps3c	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for compression in material direction 3
eps3t	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for tension in material direction 3
G12	[0, 1]	Shear modulus in the 1-2 plane [N/m^2]
G23	[0, 1]	Shear modulus in the 2-3 plane [N/m^2]
G31	[0, 1]	Shear modulus in the 3-1 plane [N/m^2]
gamma12	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for shear in 1-2 plane
gamma23	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for shear in 1-3 plane
gamma31	[0, 1]	Allowable strain for shear in 1-3 plane
nu12	[0, 1]	Poisson's ratio in in 1-2 plane
nu23	[0, 1]	Poisson's ratio in in 2-3 plane
nu31	[0, 1]	Poisson's ratio in in 3-1 plane
sig1c	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for compression in material direction 1 [N/m^2]
sig1t	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for tension in material direction 1 [N/m^2]
sig2c	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for compression in material direction 2 [N/m^2]
sig2t	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for tension in material direction 2 [N/m^2]
sig3c	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for compression in material direction 3 [N/m^2]
sig3t	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for tension in material direction 3 [N/m^2]
tau12	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for shear in 1-2 plane [N/m^2]
tau23	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for shear in 2-3 plane [N/m^2]
tau31	[0, 1]	Allowable stress for shear in 3-1 plane [N/m^2]
thermalConductivity12	[0, 1]	Thermal conductivity of the material which couples heat flux in material direction 1 with temperature gradient in material direction 2 [W/(m*K)]
thermalConductivity23	[0, 1]	Thermal conductivity of the material which couples heat flux in material direction 2 with temperature gradient in material direction 3 [W/(m*K)]
thermalConductivity31	[0, 1]	Thermal conductivity of the material which couples heat flux in material direction 3 with temperature gradient in material direction 1 [W/(m*K)]
thermalExpansionCoeff1	[0, 1]	Thermal expansion coefficient in material direction 1 [1/K]
thermalExpansionCoeff2	[0, 1]	Thermal expansion coefficient in material direction 2 [1/K]
thermalExpansionCoeff3	[0, 1]	Thermal expansion coefficient in material direction 3 [1/K]

Attributes

Name	Type	Required	Description
externalDataDirectory	string
externalDataNodePath	string
externalFileName	string

Remarks

Defines the material properties for an elastic orthotropic material in three spatial directions (i.e., solid). The strain-stress relationship is defined as:

Note that nuij is related to nuji by:

The terminology refers to the following literature:

[1] R. M. Jones, Mechanics Of Composite Materials, 2 New edition. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor and Francis Inc, 1998.

Reference

materialType