Tutorials for Multiple Materials
The tutorials described in this section are located in tutorials/solid/multiMaterial directory. These tutorials demonstrate how to use multiple materials in a solids4foam analysis. Mulitple materials can be defined in constant/mechanicalProperties as, for example,
steel
{
type linearElastic;
rho rho [1 -3 0 0 0 0 0] 7800;
E E [1 -1 -2 0 0 0 0] 210e+09;
nu nu [0 0 0 0 0 0 0] 0.3;
}
rubber
{
type linearElastic;
rho rho [1 -3 0 0 0 0 0] 2000;
E E [1 -1 -2 0 0 0 0] 100e+06;
nu nu [0 0 0 0 0 0 0] 0.4;
}
where the solids4Foam solver expects to find a cellZone defined in the mesh for each material. It is assumed that the cellZones have the same names as the materials, e.g. steel, rubber.