27.4. Material Properties

The unit system for this example problem is shown in the table below.

Unit System Metric (m, kg, N, s, V, A)
Angle Radians

The top roller and side roller are made of structural steel.

The block uses structural steel with elastoplastic behavior. A bilinear isotropic hardening material model (TB,PLASTIC,,,,BISO) is used with the following temperature-independent material properties:

Material Properties for Hot-Rolling Analysis
Young's Modulus 200 Gpa
Poisson's Ratio 0.3
Tangent Modulus 2 Gpa
Yield Stress 70 Mpa[a]
Coefficient of friction [b] 0.6

[a] A hot-rolling problem uses a low-yield stress value.

[b] Between the rollers and the block during the rolling process.

To specify the block material in Engineering Data perform the following steps:

  1. Right click Structural Steel material in Engineering Data and select Duplicate to create a new material Structural Steel 2.

  2. Double click Bilinear Isotropic Hardening listed under Plasticity in the Toolbox to add it to the properties of Structural Steel 2.

  3. Under Bilinear Isotropic Hardening, set Yield Strength and Tangent Modulus to the values listed in the table above.

Figure 27.14: Material properties for Block body

Material properties for Block body


After defining the Structural Steel 2 material, close the Engineering Data workspace, click Refresh Project on the project schematic in Workbench, and assign it to the block body in the Mechanical application.