MAT LAW

Harsh2610
Harsh2610 Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I am doing tensile test of an HDPE Plastic material. I have only few material properties such as Young's modulus, Density, tensile strength etc. Which material law can be used in this case? 

I go through tutorial but I dont have the properties which are used in that tutorial.

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2017

    Hi,

    With these inputs you can try modelling with material law 2.

  • Harsh2610
    Harsh2610 Altair Community Member
    edited December 2017

    Hello,

    I think Mat Law 2 require Hardening parameter (b) and plastic hardening exponent (n)...

    How to calculate them?

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2020

    Hi,

    I'm attaching an excel sheet for /MAT/LAW2.

    Enter Ultimate Stress, Yield Stress and percentage elongation of the material so that it will calculate and will provide the b and n values. a is the yield stress value.

     

     

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  • Harsh2610
    Harsh2610 Altair Community Member
    edited December 2017

    Hello George ,

    Thank you very much.

    Just one query.... Value use in formula....205000.... Is it a Young's modulus?

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2017

    Hi,

    I don't think its Young's Modulus.

    Please  check open web resources on hardening parameters.

    In the latest HyperWorks version (From 14 onwards) we can input the yield and UTS directly and the solver will directly calculate these parameters.

  • Harsh2610
    Harsh2610 Altair Community Member
    edited December 2017

    Hello George,

    Thank you..

    I will try for it

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018
    Altair Forum User said:

    Hi,

    I'm attaching an excel sheet for /MAT/LAW2.

    Enter Ultimate Stress, Yield Stress and percentage elongation of the material so that it will calculate and will provide the b and n values. a is the yield stress value.

     

     

     

    Hi George,

    Could you explain the background theory of this Excel sheet for /Mat/law2?

    From this excel, n=0.45*elongation，b=(Ultimate-yield)/(n-(Ultimate/205000))^n      How this formula come from?   And what's the scope of the formula?

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    Roy

     

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018

    Hi Roy,

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    From this they have developed that excel sheet with the formula. I recommend you to go through the open web resources on Johnson-Cook material parameters.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018

    Hi George,

    I'm sorry for the late reply.

    I know the formula of Johnson-Cook model you showed. I just cannot understand the expressions in the Excel.

    So how to understand this formula?

    From this excel, n=0.45*elongation，b=(Ultimate-yield)/(n-(Ultimate/205000))^n

     

    Roy

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018

    Hi Roy,

    This excel sheet was using long back , now we don't recommend this.

    From RADIOSS version 14, you can directly input the tested values (Yield stress, UTS and strain at UTS), by switching on the I_flag to 1 and so this seems to be obsolete. 

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