Importing Material Properties and Phase Transformation Data
When the Metal Phase Transformation, Austenite Decomposition, Austenite Decomposition, Kirkaldy–Venugopalan, Austenite Decomposition, Li–Niebuhr–Meekisho–Atteridge, or Alpha-Beta Phase Transformation interface is used, parameters for the different phase transformations have to be defined. Additionally, if the interface is used with Heat Transfer in Solids or Solid Mechanics, the material properties of the metallurgical phases have to be defined. Phase transformations and material properties are typically temperature dependent. In the case of plasticity, the material properties also depend on plastic strain and plastic strain rate.
The effort involved in obtaining material properties and phase transformation data experimentally, or by consulting literature sources, can be time consuming and expensive. As an alternative, material properties and phase transformation data for general steels can be imported from the software JMatPro®. The following sections describe how this is done.