Hybrid materials

Circiumaru George-Lary

Hello! I am a student at UNITBV in Romania and I am using the software Altair HyperWorks, HyperMesh, for a project at my faculty. The software is licensed and I would like to ask if it is possible to create a hybrid material from two metals, such as steel and aluminum for example. I have searched on several websites on how to do this, and everywhere it says that it can be done through a create command for a hybrid material, but no matter how much I searched in my software, I couldn't find it. The version I am using is from 2022. Can you help me with an explanation if it is possible to create this hybrid material from two different metals? I would like the material to be uniformly distributed, in a proportion of 60% steel and 40% aluminum, for example, like an alloy, not in layers or pieces.

Thank you!

PaulAltair

I'm not completely sure what you mean here, it isn't really possible to physically assign multiple materials to a part in different proportions as you describe, what is the physical part made from? What is the purpose of doing what you are asking for? i.e. Normally, if you have an alloy material, then you would use the properties of the alloy.

You don't mention which solver you are using, it may be possible to describe your requested set up in some solvers using different methods.

in OptiStruct for example, you could define the 2 materials as plys of a laminate in their required proportions and use the 'SMEAR' option for the stack to effectively create a hybrid material. But the end result wouldn't be replicable physically!