{"id":52676,"date":"2021-02-28T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/parameterize-material-assignments\/"},"modified":"2021-02-28T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T00:40:07","slug":"parameterize-material-assignments","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/parameterize-material-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Parameterize Material Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I currently have multiple nonlinear materials defined through the Engineering Data section of Ansys Workbench. They all come from a predefined material library.nWhat is the easiest way to parameterize which material I’d like to assign to my different geometries? For example, if I have 5 bodies and 10 materials and I would like to run a study to see which material combination amongst those 5 bodies will give me the best results.nI have seen this post (https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/blog\/can-i-parameterize-ansys-mechanical-material-assignments\/) but was wondering if there is perhaps any other simpler way of doing this without requiring the need to create ‘holder’ geometries. nIs there a way to set the material ID for a material that was defined in the Engineering Data? If so then I could insert an APDL command without the need to create the ‘holder’ geometries.nAlternatively, for linear materials I understand how to parameterize material properties (ie Young’s modulus, Poisson ratio). Is there an easy way to do this also for nonlinear materials (where your parameter is a vector\/table instead of a value)?nThank you in advance.n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-52676","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-mechanical","topic-tag-apdl","topic-tag-material","topic-tag-parameterize"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t