9.4. Curve Fitting for Material Properties

The Ansys Polyflow package includes a preprocessor called Ansys Polymat, which allows you to determine the material property definitions that correspond to experimental data (or other external data) that you have for the material. Ansys Polymat analyzes the data you provide, and performs curve fitting to obtain the appropriate inputs to Ansys Polydata. To perform curve fitting on your data, select the Curve Fitting item in the Material data menu in Ansys Polydata.

  Curve Fitting

Ansys Polydata will launch the Ansys Polymat program for you. See the separate Ansys Polymat User’s Guide for information about using Ansys Polymat.

You can also start Ansys Polymat from Ansys Polyman, as described in Starting the Programs.