Compound Material Properties

The material consists of a mixture of metallurgical phases, each with a phase fraction that is evolving during the analysis. When the Metal Processing Module is used together with the Heat Transfer in Solids and Solid Mechanics interfaces, it is of interest to compute effective material properties so that a compound material can be defined and used by these physics interfaces. This chapter describes how various thermal and mechanical properties are averaged in terms of the phase fractions of the material.