Material property data

The material property data is shown in the member and plate property data panels.

Material properties must be input for each type of member or plate material in the model. Each material property describes the properties of a single isotropic material.

Material

There are two fields, one for the material property number and the other for the material name. Material property numbers do not have to be sequential or in any particular order. The material name is used as a description for the material, and as a reference for materials which have been read from a library.

E

Value of Young’s Modulus for the material.

Poisson’s

Value of Poisson’s Ratio for the material.

Mass Dens

Mass density, required only for self weight calculations.

Temp Coeff

The coefficient of thermal expansion, required only for thermal loads. You must ensure that this is appropriate for the temperature units you have selected (see also Units).

F’c

Characteristic concrete strength, required only for concrete materials. Is used only in the SPACE GASS concrete design modules.

Stress vs Strain

For specifying Non-linear material stress strain curves for Plate elements. Only applicable for SG-X solver. The Stress vs Strain curves are ignored in the Paradise and Wavefront solvers and treated as a linear material.

Refer Non-linear Material for Shell elements.