29.82 PorousMetalPlasticity object

The PorousMetalPlasticity object specifies a porous metal plasticity model.

Access

import material
mdb.models[name].materials[name].porousMetalPlasticity
import odbMaterial
session.odbs[name].materials[name].porousMetalPlasticity

This method creates a PorousMetalPlasticity object.

Path

mdb.models[name].materials[name].PorousMetalPlasticity
session.odbs[name].materials[name].PorousMetalPlasticity

Required argument

table

A sequence of sequences of Floats specifying the items described below.

Optional arguments

relativeDensity

None or a Float specifying the initial relative density of the material, . The default value is None.

temperatureDependency

A Boolean specifying whether the data depend on temperature. The default value is OFF.

dependencies

An Int specifying the number of field variable dependencies. The default value is 0.

Table data

Return value

A PorousMetalPlasticity object.

Exceptions

RangeError.

This method modifies the PorousMetalPlasticity object.

Required arguments

None.

Optional arguments

The optional arguments to setValues are the same as the arguments to the PorousMetalPlasticity method.

Return value

None

Exceptions

RangeError.

The PorousMetalPlasticity object has members with the same names and descriptions as the arguments to the PorousMetalPlasticity method.

In addition, the PorousMetalPlasticity object can have the following members:

porousFailureCriteria

A PorousFailureCriteria object.

voidNucleation

A VoidNucleation object.