how to assign material properties to different elements in model

[w.wright1399]

Hello

I have an Abaqus CAE file with a simple model with 20 elements, I want to assign different material properties to each element, how would I go about doing this?

Also would it be possible to do this from Matlab without having to open abaqus? I also have the the model as an .inp input file and .fil file, is there a way for Matlab to run the input file and edit the properties of each element?

Any help would be much appreciated thank you
Walter

 

[Mustaine3]

You can create an element set for each element and then define 20 solid sections (e.g.), where each one refers to a set and a material of your choice.


Depending on what you try to do, you should first check if you can do it with *Distribution and *Distribution Table. That would be more efficient.
See Analysis Users Guide 2.8.1 Distribution definition


Another option might be the use of field variables (*Field). That means you can make your material property dependent of a field variable and then define the value of that variable for each region.