How to create a material model in ANSYS

- July 7, 2020 at 5:56 pm
  
  Jessy996
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  
  I work in Biomechanics research and I am trying to simulate muscle activity in my model. I found that the LS-DYNA software has a material model for muscles (MAT_S15); any idea how can I define this material model in ANSYS?
  
  Thank you,
  
  Jess
- July 7, 2020 at 8:53 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Read the LS-DYNA documentation to see the equations used in the S15 muscle material.
  
  Then read the ANSYS documentation to see which material models use similar equations.
- July 8, 2020 at 8:32 am
  
  Jessy996
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you for your insightful reply.
  
  Can you please attach me the link of ANSYS documentation where I can find the equations of material model?
  
  Also, in case I didn’t find similar equations, is there a way to manually insert the equations of the material?
  
  Thank you for your time,
  
  jess
- July 8, 2020 at 4:56 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  If you have ANSYS installed, from the Windows Start menu, go to the ANSYS folder and pick ANSYS Help.
  
  ANSYS has a capability to create a custom material, but I have never done that.