Select Environment

When you characterize a nonlinear material in Advanced Material Exchange, you must specify the environment you wish to use for the structural analysis. If you have both tensile and compressive data, you must select an environment for each response.

If you plot the idealized response of your nonlinear material, you can select the environment to use below the displayed plot. Select one tensile, and one compressive (if applicable) environment and click Close.

If you do not view the plot of the nonlinear material, you must use the Select Environment button select icon (Material > Select Environment).

Select an Interpolated Environment

If you have experimental stress-strain data at multiple temperatures, you can use the temperature interpolation feature to select an environment that is between two known environments. Advanced Material Exchange allows you to interpolate between two known temperature environments. You cannot extrapolate beyond the known temperature environments. This feature is useful if you want to run a structural simulation at a temperature different from the temperature the material properties were measured in. Refer to the Interpolation topic in the HIN file section of the User's Guide for more information.

To select an interpolated environment for use in the structural simulation:

  1. Click select icon (Material > Select Environment).

  2. Use the drop-list to select an available humidity.

  3. Use the drop-list to select an available strain rate.

  4. Drag the temperature slider to select the temperature level for the environment. The material is characterized using the selected combination of humidity, strain rate, and temperature.

    Note: If only one temperature is available for the selected humidity and strain rate, you cannot interpolate to a new temperature.

Plot Filters

Use the plot filters to choose what data is displayed on the stress-strain plots.

Parent page: Add Nonlinear Material Data