Creating Eulerian sections

Eulerian sections are used to specify the materials that can be present in an Eulerian domain. Eulerian sections can be assigned only to Eulerian-type parts, and a single Eulerian section must be assigned to an entire Eulerian part.

Context:

An Eulerian section does not create material within an Eulerian part; rather, it provides a list of materials that may exist within the part. The Eulerian part contains only void by default. After creating an Eulerian section, you can add material to the part using a material assignment predefined field (see Defining a material assignment field). For more information, see Eulerian Analysis. For an overview of modeling Eulerian analyses in Abaqus/CAE, see Eulerian analyses.”

  1. From the main menu bar, select SectionCreate.

    A Create Section dialog box appears.

    Tip: You can also click Create in the Section Manager or select the create section tool in the Property module toolbox.

  2. Enter a section name. For more information on naming objects, see Using basic dialog box components.
  3. Select Solid as the section Category and Eulerian as the section Type, and click Continue.

    The Eulerian section editor appears.

  4. Each material present in the Eulerian section is represented by a row in the Material Instances table. To add rows to the table, click mouse button 3 on a row and select Insert Row Before or Insert Row After from the menu that appears.
  5. For each row in the Material Instances table, enter the following data:

    Base Material

    A material that may be present in the Eulerian part. Click in the Base Material column, then click the arrow that appears to display the list of available materials, and select the appropriate material.

    Instance Name

    A name that is used to refer to the base material in assembly-related modules, such as when you are defining the initial composition of an Eulerian domain using the material assignment predefined field (see Defining a material assignment field). Separate output is created for each material instance name (see Viewing output from Eulerian analyses). In some situations it may be necessary to create multiple, unique material instance names that refer to the same base material; for example, if you want separate output data for different regions of the model that contain the same base material. Abaqus/CAE automatically creates a material instance name when you select a base material; however, you can overwrite this default instance name if desired.

  6. Click OK to save your changes and to close the Eulerian section editor.