1. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Section 17 Material & Property Definition

2. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Material Definition Materials can be defined using either Applications | Analysis | Structural | Material (or) Applications | Analysis | Thermal | Material for Structural or Thermal Analysis respectively. Supported Material Categories Metal Rubber Gasket Composite Features Stress – Strain – Temperature (or) Stress – Strain curve can be defined. Gasket Loading and UnLoading curves can be defined.

3. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Material Management Materials defined can be stored into SimLab database and also materials from database can be loaded into current Application.

4. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Material Transfer Materials defined can be exported in the form of XML and also material definitions in the form of XML can be loaded into SimLab database (or) current application.

5. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Property Definition Element property can be defined using this tool - Applications | Analysis | Structural | Property Property definition is categorized as follows Solid Shell Bar Rigid Bar Membrane Rigid Body Various Element types corresponding to solvers can be selected

6. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Shell Element Property Section properties Property Definition Membrane Element Property Rigid Body Property

7. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Gasket PropertiesRBE propertiesMembrane properties Rigid Bar Property Definition RBE2 PropertyRBE3 Property

8. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Bar Property Definition Option to calculate bar properties (Area, Moment of Inertia, Torsional Moment of Inertia) for various sections is available