how to select material card for Pine wood?

Altair Forum User

Hi please tell me how to assign material for pine wood?

Significance of MAT9 Card (in an-isotropic)?

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Altair Forum User

Hi Prashant,

 

Wood by definition is anisotrpic material, so you can go with MAT9 or MAT9ORT material cards. Make sure you have all material properties for that.

Altair Forum User

Sir, Thanks for your reply.

I don't know the meninges of of G11,...........G66 in the Material Card.

I have all the properties of pine wood material but don't know how to apply the these properties in material Card.

So i need  Significance of MAT9 Card (in an-isotropic)?

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Altair Forum User

Hi Prashant,

 

With the available properties are engineering constants, you can use MAT9ORT instead of MAT9.