{"id":236126,"date":"2022-09-23T02:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/changing-reference-temperature-of-a-nonlinear-material\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:31:52","slug":"changing-reference-temperature-of-a-nonlinear-material","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/changing-reference-temperature-of-a-nonlinear-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing reference temperature of a nonlinear material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>In my transient structural simulation, I would like to change the reference temperature of some elements (but not others) at the end of each loadstep using a command object. <\/p>\n<p>The issue is that my material is nonlinear, so I cannot define two nonlinear materials (which differ only by the reference temperature) and then use the MPCHG command to switch between them (as the MPCHG command connot switch between nonlinear materials).<\/p>\n<p>Is there some way to change the reference temperature of specific elements without defining a new material?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-236126","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-apdl","topic-tag-transient-structural"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["168004","6"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.74.191"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["723"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["236126"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["6","168004"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["236203"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["236203"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-09-23 21:56:01"]},"test":"rgdiscovery"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/236126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/236126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}