Define Materials

13.  Define material properties.

For this analysis, there is only one material for the bracket, A36 Steel, with given values for Young’s modulus of elasticity and Poisson’s ratio.

1. Main Menu:  Preprocessor
        Material Props
             -Constant-Isotropic
2. OK since we are defining material 1  -»
3. Enter 30e6 for EX  -»
4. Tab or click on NUXY field and enter .27  -»
5. OK to define material property set and close the dialog box  -»