*CAST IRON PLASTICITY

Specify plastic material properties for gray cast iron.

This option is used to define the plastic properties for gray cast iron. It must be used in conjunction with the CAST IRON COMPRESSION HARDENING and CAST IRON TENSION HARDENING options.

This page discusses:

Optional parameters
Data lines to define the plastic “Poisson's ratio”

Optional parameters

DEPENDENCIES: Set this parameter equal to the number of field variable dependencies included in the definition of the material properties, in addition to temperature. If this parameter is omitted, it is assumed that the material properties depend only on temperature. See Material Data Definition for more information.

Data lines to define the plastic “Poisson's ratio”

First line

Value of the plastic “Poisson's ratio,” $ν_{p l}$ , where $- 1.0 < ν_{p l} \leq 0.5$ . (Dimensionless.) If no value is provided, a default value of $0.04$ is assumed.
Temperature, $θ$ .
First field variable.
Etc., up to six field variables.

Subsequent lines (only needed if the DEPENDENCIES parameter has a value greater than six)

Seventh field variable.
Etc., up to eight field variables per line.

Repeat this set of data lines as often as necessary to define the dependence of the material parameter $ν_{p l}$ on temperature and field variables.