Materials

Material Law Description

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Law No.	Law Name	Group	Type	Model Description	Application	Viscosity	Orthotrop	Embedded Thermal Option**	Strain Rate	Formulation
	GAS	Other materials	Gas	Gas molecular weight and specific heat coefficients	Airbag	No	No	Yes	No	Lagrange
0	VOID	Other materials	Void	Fictitious	Void material, visualization of surface/body/rigid materials as contact surfaces	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
1*	ELAST	Other materials	Elastic	Isotropic, linear elastic material using Hooke’s law	Metals and elastic materials for small deformation only	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
2*	PLAS_JOHNS	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Isotropic elasto-plastic material using the Johnson-Cook material model	Metals, elasto-plastic materials, mild steels, strain rate dependent, temperature dependent, isotropic and kinematic hardening, duroplaste, low alloy steel, ST52, and DP600	No	No	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
2*	PLAS_ZERIL	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Isotropic elasto-plastic material using the Zerilli-Armstrong plasticity model	Metals, elasto-plastic materials, mild steels, strain rate dependent, temperature dependent, isotropic and kinematic hardening, duroplaste, low alloy steel, ST52, and DP600	No	No	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
3*	HYDPLA	Elasto-plastic materials	Hydrodynamic	von Mises hardening, polynomial pressure	Elasto-plastic materials in high speed impact, requires EOS	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
4*	HYD_JCOOK	Elasto-plastic materials	Hydrodynamic	Hydrodynamic Johnson-Cook	Elasto-plastic materials in high speed impact, requires EOS, accounts for temperature effects	No	No	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
5	JWL	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	Explosive materials	Jones Wilkens Lee model	Explosive TNT	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
6*	HYDRO	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	Hydrodynamic	Hydrodynamic viscous	Fluid, gas, water and oil	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
6	K-EPS	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	CFD materials	Hydrodynamics viscous with k -		Yes	No	No	No	CFD
10*	DPRAG1	Concrete and Rock materials	Rock	Drücker-Prager for rock or concrete by polynomial	Soil, sand, simple concrete model, ice and snow	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
11	BOUND	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	ALE materials	Boundary element	Inlet/outlet conditions for fluid	No	No	Yes	No	ALE
11	B-K-EPS	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	CFD materials	Boundary elements with k -	Inlet/outlet conditions for turbulent fluid	Yes	No	Yes	No	CFD
12*	3D_COMP	Composite and Fabric materials	Composite	Tsai-Wu formula for solid	Laminated composite materials, carbon fiber laminates, and short fiber composite material	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
14*	COMPSO	Composite and Fabric materials	Composite	Composite solid	Long fiber unidirectional composite materials	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
15*	CHANG	Composite and Fabric materials	Composite	Composite Shell Chang-Chang	Laminated composite materials (Obsolete, use LAW25 or LAW12 instead).	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
16	GRAY	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Gray model	Allows for phase changes in high speed impact, not validated completely	No	No	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
18	THERM	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	ALE materials	Purely thermal material		No	No	Yes	No	ALE
19*	FABRI	Composite and Fabric materials	Fabric	Fabric	Airbag and seat belt fabrics, woven fabric, seat foam cover, and materials without bending stiffness	No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
20	BIMAT	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	ALE materials	ALE or Euler formulation	Mix of any 2 materials compatible with 2D analysis	No	No	No	No	ALE
21*	DPRAG	Concrete and Rock materials	Rock	Drücker-Prager for rock or concrete by function	Soil and sand	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
22*	DAMA	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Ductile damage for solids and shells	Metals, elasto-plastic materials, mild steels, strain rate dependent, duroplaste, low alloy steel, ST52, and DP600	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
23*	PLAS_DAMA	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Ductile damage for solids	Metals, elasto-plastic materials, mild steels, strain rate dependent, duroplaste, low alloy steel, ST52, and DP600	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
24*	CONC	Concrete and Rock materials	Rock	Brittle elastic plastic behavior of reinforced concrete	Sand, soil, concrete, ice and snow	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
25*	COMPSH	Composite and Fabric materials	Composite	Composite Shell, plasticity model is based on standard (Tsai-Wu) formulation and CRASURV formulation	Laminated composite materials, carbon fiber laminates, and short fiber composite material	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
26	SESAM	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	ALE materials	SESAM tabular EOS, used with a Johnson-Cook yield criterion		No	No	Yes	No	ALE
27*	PLAS_BRIT	Elasto-plastic materials	Brittle Metal and Glass	Aluminum, glass, etc.	Hard steel, Dualphase steel, DP800, DP1000, casting, aluminum, magnesium, poly carbonate, and glass	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
28*	HONEYCOMB	Honeycomb materials	Honeycomb	Honeycomb	Honeycomb and corrugated cardboard	No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
29	USER1	Other materials	User-defined	User-defined	User-defined	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
30	USER2	Other materials	User-defined	User-defined	User-defined	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
31	USER3	Other materials	User-defined	User-defined	User-defined	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
32*	HILL	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal orthotropic	Hill	Aluminum alloy, anisotropic steel, and roll formed metals	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
33*	FOAM_PLAS	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Foam	Closed cells, elastic plastic foam	Crushable foam and styrofoam	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
34*	BOLTZMAN	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Visco-elastic	Boltzmann	Viscous foams, rubbers, and creep behavior	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
35*	FOAM_VISC	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Foam	Generalized Kelvin-Voigt	High density foam with viscosity	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
36*	PLAS_TAB	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Tabulated piecewise linear	Elasto-plastic material	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
37	BIPHAS	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	ALE materials	Hydrodynamic bi-material liquid gas material	Liquid and gas	Yes	No	No	No	ALE
38*	VISC_TAB	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Viscous	Tabulated law	Viscous foams and seat foam	Yes	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
40*	KELVINMAX	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Viscous	Generalized Maxwell-Kelvin	Visco-elastic foams and rubber	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
41	LEE-TARVER	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	Hydrodynamic	Lee-Tarver material	Explosives	No	No	Yes	No	Lagrange
42*	OGDEN	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Rubber	Hyper visco-elastic	Incompressible rubber materials	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
43*	HILL_TAB	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Hill (tabulated)	Aluminum alloy, anisotropic steel, and roll formed metals	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
44*	COWPER	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Cowper-Symonds	Metals, elasto-plastic materials, mild steels, strain rate dependent, temperature dependent, isotropic and kinematic hardening, duroplaste, low alloy steel, ST52, and DP600	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
46	LES_FLUID	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	CFD materials	Viscous fluid with LES subgrid scale viscosity		Yes	No	No	No	CFD
48*	ZHAO	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Elastic plastic strain rate dependent materials	Metals, elasto-plastic materials, mild steels, strain rate dependent, temperature dependent, isotropic and kinematic hardening, duroplaste, low alloy steel, ST52, and DP600	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
49*	STEINB	Elasto-plastic materials	Hydrodynamic	Steinberg-Guinan		No	No	Yes	No	Lagrange
50*	VISC_HONEY	Honeycomb materials	Composite	Crushable foam	Honeycomb and corrugated cardboard	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
51	MULTIMAT	Multi-Materials, fluid and explosive materials	ALE materials	Solid, liquid, gas and explosives	Fluid, gas, water, oil, metals, explosive, soil, and sand	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	ALE
52*	GURSON	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Ductile damage for porous materials, Gurson	Castings alloys, aluminum, adhesives, cast iron, and cast aluminum (material with void inclusions)	Yes	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
53*	TSAI_TAB	Elasto-plastic materials	Composite	Orthotropic elasto-plastic		No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
54*	PREDIT	Connections materials	Spotweld	Predit law		No	No	No	No	Lagrange
57*	BARLAT3	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Three-parameter Barlat	DC04 and anisotropic steel	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
58*	FABR_A	Composite and Fabric materials	Fabric	Fabric	Airbag and seat belt fabrics, woven fabric, seat foam cover, Kevlar, materials without bending stiffness, and material for draping simulations	No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
59	CONNECT	Connections materials	Spotweld	Connection material	Spotwelds, adhesives, rivets, and bonding layers for laminates	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
60*	PLAS_T3	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Tabulated quadratic in strain rate	Elasto-plastic material, low alloy mild steel, DP780, ultra-hard steel, Boron steel, 22MnB5, aluminum, AA5182, AA6061, AA6070, Thermoplast, EPDM, Polyamid, HCT, HCT600, Noryl, PA6GF30, and polypropylen	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
62*	VISC_HYP	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Rubber	Hyper visco-elastic	Compressible & incompressible rubber, and foams	Yes	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
63*	HANSEL	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Hansel model	Austenitic steel and account for solid phase change (obsolete, use LAW80 instead).	No	No	Yes	No	Lagrange
64*	UGINE_ALZ	Elasto-plastic materials	Elastic plastic Isotropic	Ugine & Alz approach	Austenitic steel and account for solid phase change (obsolete, use LAW80 instead).	No	No	Yes	No	Lagrange
65*	ELASTOMER	Elasto-plastic materials	Elastic plastic Isotropic	Elastomer	Seat belts and Nitinol	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
66*	LAW66	Elasto-plastic materials	Rubber	Visco-elastic	Magnesium, polymer, and steel	Yes	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
68*	COSSER	Honeycomb materials	Honeycomb	Cosserat Medium	Honeycomb and corrugated cardboard	No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
69	LAW69	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Rubber	Tabulated Input for hyperelastic	Incompressible rubber materials	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
70*	FOAM_TAB	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Foam	Tabulated law, hyper visco-elastic	Compressible foams, PU, EPP, and PVC	Yes	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
71	LAW71	Other materials	Metal (shape memory alloy)	Analytical pseudo elastic	Shape memory alloy - Nitinol	No	No	Yes	No	Lagrange
72*	HILL_MMC	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Anistropic Hill	Anisotropic steel, Anisotropic aluminum, AA6061 T6, and DP780	No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
73*	LAW73	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Thermal Hill Orthotropic	Metal forming applications	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
74*	LAW74	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Thermal Hill Orthotropic 3D	Meal forming applications	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
75	POROUS	Other materials	Foam	Porous material model	Ductile porous	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
76*	SAMP	Elasto-plastic materials	Plastic	Semi-analytical elasto-plastic	Plastic, polymer, and high alloy steel	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
77	LAW77	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Foam	Tabulated law, visco-elastic foam	Open cell foam	Yes	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
78	LAW78	Elasto-plastic materials	Plastic strain	Yoshida-Uemori material	DC04, anisotropic steel, deep drawing, and stamping steel	No	Yes	No	No	Lagrange
79	JOHN_HOLM	Elasto-plastic materials	Brittle Metal and Glass	Brittle metals	Ceramics and glass	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
80	LAW80	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	High strength steel	Ultra high strength steel (e.g. Boron), Hot forming, solid phase change (from austenite to bainite, perlite, ferrite, martensite)	No	No	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
81	LAW81	Concrete and Rock materials	Rock	Drücker-Prager with cap	Soils	No	No	No	No	Lagrange
82	LAW82	Hyper and visco-elastic materials	Rubber	Ogden material	Incompressible rubber materials	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange
83	LAW83	Connections materials	Spotweld	Advanced connection material	Spotwelds, adhesives, rivets, and bonding layers for laminates	No	No	No	Yes	Lagrange
84	LAW84	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Swift and Voce elasto-plastic law		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Lagrange
87	LAW87	Elasto-plastic materials	Metal	Anisotropic Barlat Yield 2000 criterion Swift and Voce elasto-plastic law Or Tabulated law	Anisotropic metals, especially aluminum	No	Yes	No	Yes	Lagrange
92	LAW92	Elasto-plastic materials	Rubber	Arruda-Boyce Hyperelastic material	Incompressible rubber materials	Yes	No	No	No	Lagrange

(*): Indicates material laws compatible with local unit system

(**): Besides materials that already have thermal characteristics inside material law (Embedded Thermal Option), all material laws could define thermal characteristics together with /HEAT/MAT and /THERM_STRESS/MAT.

Comments

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2.	The Manual Keyword is the keyword of the law, as referenced in this manual.

3.	The Law Number is the material law number used to reference the material law in the fixed format manual.

4.	The Other Available Keywords column features other keywords, which can be used to define the same material law.