{"id":33393,"date":"2019-02-19T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/change-material-properteis-for-specific-steps-in-ansys-transient\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:59:00","slug":"change-material-properteis-for-specific-steps-in-ansys-transient","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/change-material-properteis-for-specific-steps-in-ansys-transient\/","title":{"rendered":"Change material properteis for specific steps in ANSYS transient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have a simulation where I have a material that is compressing and stretching alternately.&nbsp; I want to be able to compress the material in step one and compress it in step two.&nbsp; But after the first step, when the material is compressed, if I change the material properties in the Engineering Data screen the simulation forgets where it is and wants to start over.&nbsp; Is there a way to apply the total deformation which is calculated at the end of the fist step to a new material for the next step?&nbsp; Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-33393","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5565"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["4768"],"_bbp_subscription":["270933"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["33393"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["157493","162192","270933"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["302797"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["302797"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-08-22 18:02:38"]},"test":"ansysuser"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33393","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\/33393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}