Chaboche Kinematic Hardening

The Chaboche Kinematic Hardening material model option can be defined with respect to temperature and allows up to five kinematic models for each temperature. It is required that all kinematic models be defined for each temperature. You can specify the number of kinematic models in the drop-down list. This adds additional columns for entering the data. Also included as an option is Chaboche Kinematic Hardening with Recovery. See the Nonlinear Kinematic Hardening topic in the Rate-Independent Plasticity section of the Mechanical APDL Material Reference for more information.