Creating a material

In this problem all the members of the frame are made of steel and assumed to be linear elastic with Young's modulus of 200 GPa and Poisson's ratio of 0.3. Thus, you will create a single linear elastic material with these properties.

  1. In the Model Tree, double-click the Materials container to create a new material.

    Abaqus/CAE switches to the Property module, and the Edit Material dialog box appears.

  2. Name the material Steel.

  3. Use the menu bar under the browser area of the material editor to reveal menus containing all the available material options. Some of the menu items contain submenus; for example, Figure 1 shows the options available under the MechanicalElasticity menu item. When you select a material option, the appropriate data entry form appears below the menu.

    Figure 1. Submenus available under the MechanicalElasticity menu.

  4. From the material editor's menu bar, select MechanicalElasticityElastic.

    Abaqus/CAE displays the Elastic data form.

  5. Type a value of 200.0E9 for Young's modulus and a value of 0.3 for Poisson's ratio in the respective fields. Use Tab or move the cursor to a new cell and click to move between cells.

  6. Click OK to exit the material editor.