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--- wiki:sns:intactgh:materials [2023/10/24 20:10] – goldy
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-Intact.Simulation for Grasshopper contains a variety of built-in engineering materials which can be picked from the Material Block. These materials are linear isotropic materials.  Isotropic materials possess the same mechanical properties regardless of orientation.  Linear materials have a proportional relationship between stress and strain.  Metals, plastics, and ceramics are examples of linear isotropic materials.
+Intact.Simulation for Grasshopper contains a variety of built-in engineering materials which can be picked from the Material Block. These materials are linear isotropic materials. Isotropic materials possess the same mechanical properties regardless of orientation. Linear materials have a proportional relationship between stress and strain.  Metals, plastics, and ceramics are examples of linear isotropic materials. **If you are running a thermal simulation, you need to use a thermal material block.**
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 Right-clicking on the block will pop up a list from which one of the built-in materials may be selected.
-Orthotropic materials support an optional transform input, to arbitrarily rotate the axes along which the material properties are defined. Specifying a transform can be useful to simulate a composite where the fibers of the composite are oriented at 45° to the x-y axes.  The input is an affine Grasshopper Transform; the orthotropic material block will decompose the transform and apply only the rotation to the material property orientation.
+Orthotropic materials support an optional transform input, to arbitrarily rotate the axes along which the material properties are defined. Specifying a transform can be useful to simulate a composite where the fibers of the composite are oriented at varying angles relative to the global XYZ coordinate axes. The input is an affine Grasshopper Transform; the orthotropic material block will decompose the transform and apply only the rotation to the material property orientation.
-See an example that demonstrates orthotropic material:[[wiki:sns:intactgh:beginner_ex_4|Beginner Example 4 Composite Material]]
+For more details on transformations and an example of obtaining/using transformation inputs see: [[wiki:sns:intactgh:beginner_ex_4|Beginner Example 4: Planar Orthotropic Materials: Transformation Workflow]]
+Also, see here for an example that demonstrates a simulation using an orthotropic material: [[wiki:sns:intactgh:beginner_ex_5|Beginner Example 5: Static Simulation of a Composite Motor Mount]]
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