Plate Properties: Plate/Shell Isotropic
Description
Used for the definition of plate/shell isotropic properties.
Common Toolbar
See Properties: Common Controls.
Material Tab
Nonlinear Tab
Layers
Number of layers to consider in plates for material nonlinear analysis. In bending, the different layers may yield independently of each other. What binds them together is the assumption that fibre strain varies linearly through the thickness, irrespective of whether the material is linear or nonlinear.
The number of layers can affect the progression of yielding throughout the thickness; more layers will generally give a better representation of the nonlinear material behaviour. However, the onset of yielding is not sensitive to this parameter as Straus7 automatically considers the outer surfaces of the element.
Maximum number of layers is 100.
Common
Damping Tab
- Damping Ratio (NFA)
- Viscous Damping
- Rayleigh Damping
- Frequency 1 / 2
- Damping Ratio 1 / 2
- Alpha / Beta
Tables Tab
- Modulus vs Temperature
- Yield vs Temperature
- Thermal Expansion vs Temperature
- Conductivity vs Temperature
- Specific Heat vs Temperature
- Modulus vs Time
- Conductivity vs Time
Thickness Tab
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