Assign steel Fibers materials on Concrete Cylinder.

- March 20, 2020 at 6:15 am
  
  nevertrust
  Subscriber
  
  I am trying to verify experimental data ( Load Vs deflection graph) with simulation results.
  
  Length of steel fiber L_f = 60mm (End hooked type)
  
  Diameter of steel fiber D_f = 0.75mm
  
  Density of fiber ? = 0.0781 g/cm³
  
  Volume percent of steel fibers (V) = 4%
  
  Orientation of steel fibers is random
  
  Dimension of Cylinder dia 100mm X 200mm
  
  How can we simulate such type of model?
  
  Waiting for Positive response.
  
  Thank you.
- March 20, 2020 at 2:39 pm
  Wenlong
  Ansys Employee
  Hi nevertrust.
  
  You can use Ansys Material Designer to find out the equivalent homogeneous material property of the fiber-reinforced concrete. A detailed post about Material Designer can be found here: /forum/forums/topic/material-designer-introduced-in-19-2/?order=all#comment-98cbb0ab-2e10-462b-9884-a96f002dd0de
  
  Regards,
  
  Wenlong
  
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- March 23, 2020 at 1:40 am
  
  nevertrust
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you Wenlong for your reply.
  
  I use ANSYS 18.1 but didn't find ANSYS Material Designer.
  
  Do I have to use some extension or version should be upgraded?
  
  In Post 19.2 was used.
  
  Thank you.
- March 25, 2020 at 4:50 pm
  
  Wenlong
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi,
  
  I am not 100% sure but I think Material designer was added only recently like after 2019R1. So please use the latest version of Ansys.
  
  Regards,
  
  Wenlong