External Material Examples, Structural Mechanics
Application ID: 32331
The External Material functionality makes it possible to program your own material models for cases when the built-in material models are not sufficient.
For structural mechanics, you have the possibility to either completely define the material model in a domain, or to add an inelastic strain contribution to a built-in elastic material.
The external material functions are coded in C and compiled into a shared library. By programming a wrapper function in C, you can also call material functions written in another programming language.
This technology makes it possible to program your own material models and distribute compiled versions of such models as add-ons.
Here, you can find three examples:
- A simple linear elastic example
- An example with a basic plasticity model
- An example with Mazar's damage model
This model example illustrates applications of this type that would nominally be built using the following products:
however, additional products may be required to completely define and model it. Furthermore, this example may also be defined and modeled using components from the following product combinations:
- COMSOL Multiphysics® and
- either the MEMS Module, or Structural Mechanics Module
The combination of COMSOL® products required to model your application depends on several factors and may include boundary conditions, material properties, physics interfaces, and part libraries. Particular functionality may be common to several products. To determine the right combination of products for your modeling needs, review the Specification Chart and make use of a free evaluation license. The COMSOL Sales and Support teams are available for answering any questions you may have regarding this.