User-Defined Material Properties

User-defined material properties enable you to define property tables and parameter tables in material definitions and make these tables available automatically in all material-related user subroutines.

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User-Defined Material Properties

You can specify a material with user-defined mechanical behavior, user-defined thermal behavior, or both.

Input Data Description
Use unsymmetric material stiffness matrix The unsymmetric equation solver should be used for a mechanical material in cases where the Jacobian matrix is not symmetric, or for a thermal material that defines conductivity as a strong function of temperature. For implicit simulation steps only.
User material type The basic material classification. Mechanical, Thermal, or Thermo-mechanical.
Mechanical constants Constant values for the mechanical material model.
Thermal constants Constant values for the thermal material model.