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Linear Elastic Material, Layered in the Shell or Membrane interface (requires the Composite Materials Module).
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Hyperelastic Material, Layered in the Shell interface (requires the Composite Materials Module).
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Piezoelectric Material, Layered in the Shell interface (requires the Composite Materials Module).
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Thin Layer in the Heat Transfer in Solids interface.
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The most common place is under Global Definitions>Materials. When you reference a layered material from a physics interface, you do it indirectly through either a Layered Material Link or a Layered Material Link (Subnode) under Materials in the current component.
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It can also be a subnode under a Layered Material Stack node in a component.
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Click the Blank Material () button to add a new blank material under global materials. The material is referenced in current row of the Material column.
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Click the Add Material from Library () button to add a new material under global materials from Material Libraries. The material is referenced in current row of the Material column.
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Click the Go to Material () button to jump to the definition of the material selected on the current row.
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When loading a file, the second column containing the material tag is ignored. The reason is that there is no way to ascertain that a material tag like ‘mat2’ would point to the same material in another context. You can even load a file where that column is absent.
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In a layer stack preview plot, it controls the height of the stack in the z direction. For laminates with many layers, you may need to increase this value.
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In the layer cross section preview plot, it controls the height in the y direction. The width is always unity.
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