Element/ material orientation for Solid Element

Jerome Teoh
Jerome Teoh Altair Community Member
edited July 9 in Community Q&A

Hi,

Regarding this following material card, MAT9OR.

How to review or adjust the element orientation of the solid element.

Best,

Jerome.

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  • Rajashri_Saha
    Rajashri_Saha
    Altair Employee
    edited July 8

    Hi Jerome,

    Are you asking about element Normal? In that case for Solid elements, element normal is always outwards.

    Thanks

    Rajashri

  • Jerome Teoh
    Jerome Teoh Altair Community Member
    edited July 8
    Rajashri Saha_20525 said:

    Hi Jerome,

    Are you asking about element Normal? In that case for Solid elements, element normal is always outwards.

    Thanks

    Rajashri

    Rajashri,

    Not quite. Refer the picture below, I have rib structure meshed as solid elements as shown.

    I am wonder for each element, which was the direction for the E1, E2, and E3 properties as it asked to define in the MAT9OR card.

    - Jerome.

     

  • Rajashri_Saha
    Rajashri_Saha
    Altair Employee
    edited July 9
    Jerome Teoh said:

    Rajashri,

    Not quite. Refer the picture below, I have rib structure meshed as solid elements as shown.

    I am wonder for each element, which was the direction for the E1, E2, and E3 properties as it asked to define in the MAT9OR card.

    - Jerome.

     

    Jerome,

    E1,E2,E3 are elastic modulus in different directions.

    As you asked about element orientation, you can review it in hypermesh by orientation review method (CTRL+F, type Normals and from the pop-up window select "Review element orientation").

    See the below image. 

    image

    Thanks

    Rajashri

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