User-Defined Material Properties

User-defined material properties in Abaqus allow you to define property tables and parameter tables in material definitions and make these tables available automatically in all material-related user subroutines.

User-defined material properties:

  • can be included in material definitions as property tables and parameter tables; and

  • can be accessed from any material-related user subroutine that is invoked for the material for which the properties are defined.

This page discusses:

See Also
In Other Guides
*PARAMETER TABLE
*PROPERTY TABLE
Accessing Abaqus Table Collections

ProductsAbaqus/Standard

Defining Material Properties

You can define property tables and parameter tables within a material definition. Abaqus creates an internal table collection.

Input File Usage

Use the following options to define property tables and parameter tables:

MATERIAL, NAME=material_name
PROPERTY TABLE, TYPE=property_table_type
PARAMETER TABLE, TYPE=parameter_table_type

Accessing Material Properties

You can access property tables and parameter tables from any material-related user subroutine that is invoked for the material for which the tables are defined. Abaqus activates an appropriate internal table collection. You can access these tables using the utility routines described in Accessing Abaqus Table Collections.

Elements

User-defined material properties can be used with all elements in Abaqus/Standard.