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MATHP1 (Hyperelastic Material Properties, Alternate Form)

Description

Defines material properties for use in fully nonlinear (that is, large strain and large rotation) hyperelastic analysis of rubber-like materials (elastomers) for isoparametric solid elements.

Format

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
MATHP1 MID MU1 ALPHA1 D1 RHO AV TREF GE
NA ND
MU2 ALPHA2 D2 MU3 ALPHA3 D3
D4

Example

MATHP1 100 0.3245 2.0 1.45+4
2 1
-0.2345 -2.0
Field Definition Type Default
MID Material identification number Integer > 0 Required
MUi Shear moduli related to distortional deformation. Real 0.0
ALPHAi Exponents related to distortional deformation. Real 0.0
Di Material constants related to volumetric deformation. Real ≥ 0 See Remark 2
RHO Mass density in original configuration. Real 0.0
AV Volumetric coefficient of thermal expansion. Real 0.0
TREF Reference temperature for the calculation of thermal loads. Real 0.0
GE Structural element damping coefficient. See Remarks 6 and 8. Real 0.0
NA Order of the distortional strain energy polynomial function. 0 < Integer ≤ 3 1
ND Order of the volumetric strain energy polynomial function. 0 < Integer ≤ 4

Remarks

  1. The generalized Ogden strain energy may be expressed as follows:

    where λ1, λ2, and λ3 are principal stretches; J = detF is the determinate of the deformation gradient; and 2D1 = K at small strains, in which K is the bulk modulus. T is the current temperature and T0 is the initial temperature.

  2. The default for D1 is . The default for D2 through D4 is zero.
  3. Hyperelastic materials show a fully incompressible or nearly incompressible behavior. Full incompressibility is not presently available, while nearly incompressible behavior can be simulated using a large value of D1.
  4. The mass density, RHO, will be used to automatically compute mass for all structural elements.
  5. Weight density may be used in field 9 if the value 1/g is entered on the PARAM, WTMASS entry, where g is the acceleration of gravity.
  6. To obtain the damping coefficient GE, multiply the critical damping ratio C/C0 by 2.0.
  7. TREF is used only as the reference temperature for the calculation of thermal loads in linear solutions. If TEMPERATURE(INITIAL) is specified, TREF will be ignored.
  8. If PARAM W4 is not specified, GE is ignored in transient response analysis. See the Parameters section for more information on W4.

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