Spatially varying material poperties

1

Hello all,

Is it currently possible to have spatially varying properties for a material?

In Abaqus you can specify the properties per element using the DISTRIBUTION keyword e.g. for an isotropic elastic material as:

*DISTRIBUTION TABLE, NAME=tab1
  MODULUS, RATIO
*DISTRIBUTION, NAME=dist1, LOCATION=element, TABLE=tab1
                       , E0, ν0
  element set or number, E1, ν1
  element set or number, E2, ν2
  ...
*MATERIAL, NAME=MAT
*ELASTIC
  dist1

The documentation for ccx v2.19 however states that a DISTRIBUTION is only supported for the ORIENTATION keyword.

I would greatly appreciate if anyone has a suggestion or workaround.

Best regards
Henrik

2

Check this thread where we discussed some possibilities: