The material properties listed below are used in postprocessing calculations to produce the displays of probe and contour results. For reference, the corresponding labels (Lab argument) for the MP command in Mechanical APDL are included in parentheses.
Elasticity modulus (EX, EY, EZ)
Shear modulus (GXY, GYZ, GXZ)
Poisson's ratio (NUXY, NUYZ, NUXZ)
Thermal conductivities (KXX, KYY, KZZ)
Magnetic permeability (MURX, MURY, MURZ)
The following results, together with their identifiers (see User Defined Results), are directly affected by the material property values:
Equivalent Strain - uses only NUXY Poisson's ratio
Plastic (EPPL) and Creep (EPCR) strain always use NUXY = 0.5.
Elastic (EPEL), Thermal (EPTH) and Total (EPTO) default to 0.0.
Structural Error - uses elasticity modulus, shear modulus and Poisson's ratio.
Thermal Error - uses thermal conductivities
Magnetic Error - uses magnetic permeability
An error message is generated if an associated material property is not defined when evaluating Structural, Thermal or Magnetic Error result.
If Poisson's ratio is not defined when evaluating Equivalent Strain, the Poisson's ratio will assume a zero value.
Other results affected by material property values include Stress Tool and Fatigue Tool results.
Note: If a material property is temperature dependent, it is evaluated at the reference temperature of the body to be used in the computation for the result.