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How to use materials for a hyperstudy run?

How can I link the variables such that I can use the materials for a hyperstudy run. i.e. currently I am able to use E, Nu, Rho as three independant variables but I would want to use Mat1 (Rho, E, Nu); Mat2 (Rho, E, Nu) and similarly. Thus if I were to study the effects of 3 materials with a thickness variable with 2 levels instead of 54 runs, 6 runs should be sufficient.

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Gildas_GUILLY

Hello Rushabh Parikh,

Did you consider using a model of type "Lookup Table" ?
This can be used in such case. All you need is to have a table (csv) filed with all your material data.
This will allow you to have 1 master varable (the material name) and link all the response of this model (E, nu, ...) to your secondary variables (that you use in your FEM model).

Material,Young,Poisson,Density,Cost
Aluminum_Type1,65000.,0.3,2.75e-9,1.6
Aluminum_Type2,67500.,0.28,2.71e-9,1.7
Aluminum_Type3,68900.,0.31,2.89e-9,2.1
...

You can find tutorials/examples in the Hyperstudy help.

Gildas GUILLY

Rushabh Parikh

Hello Rushabh Parikh,

Did you consider using a model of type "Lookup Table" ?
This can be used in such case. All you need is to have a table (csv) filed with all your material data.
This will allow you to have 1 master varable (the material name) and link all the response of this model (E, nu, ...) to your secondary variables (that you use in your FEM model).

Material,Young,Poisson,Density,Cost
Aluminum_Type1,65000.,0.3,2.75e-9,1.6
Aluminum_Type2,67500.,0.28,2.71e-9,1.7
Aluminum_Type3,68900.,0.31,2.89e-9,2.1
...

You can find tutorials/examples in the Hyperstudy help.

Gildas GUILLY

Hey Gildas,

Thank you for the quick response. I am however, unable to link the variables (namely E, Nu, Rho, Cost) to the master variable. Could you please share some documentation/tutorial to explain your pioint?

Thanks in Advance,

Regards,

Rushabh Parikh

Gildas_GUILLY

Hey Gildas,

Thank you for the quick response. I am however, unable to link the variables (namely E, Nu, Rho, Cost) to the master variable. Could you please share some documentation/tutorial to explain your pioint?

Thanks in Advance,

Regards,

Rushabh Parikh

Here is how you need to create your setup :

Step 1 - Create a Lookup model, pointing to your csv. Click on Import variables to select the number of variables (1 in your case, let's call it Var_Name). This will create a single variable and 4 responses (let's call them Resp_E, Resp_Nu, resp_Rho, Resp_Cost).

Step 2 - Create your FEM model, exactly as you did so far. that means you will create 4 new variables from your FEM file (Let's call them Var_E, Var_Nu, Var_Rho and Var_Cost).

Step 3 - Go the to the "Define Input Variables" phase, and go to the "Link" tab.
There you can define direct relationship between your 4 variables from the FEM model to the responses from the Lookup model.
Var_E = Resp_E
Var_Nu = Resp_Nu
etc.

Then you can resume your setup as usual (defining the responses from your FEM result).
Doing so, you will have 1 main variable (that will be changed by your DOE for example) and 4 dependant variables (that will update in accordance with the main variable).

Gildas