Creating a material

You will create a material named Steel that has a Young's modulus of 209 GPa and a Poisson's ratio of 0.3.

  1. In the Model Tree, double-click the Materials container to create a new material.

    The Edit Material dialog box appears.

  2. Name the material Steel.
  3. From the editor's menu bar, select MechanicalElasticityElastic.

    Abaqus/CAE displays the Elastic data form.

  4. In the respective fields in the Elastic data form, type a value of 209.E9 for Young's modulus and a value of 0.3 for Poisson's ratio.
  5. Click OK to exit the material editor.