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Physical and element properties support (Simcenter Samcef)

Property	Simcenter Samcef commands and parameters	Remark
Material	.MAT, .AEL MAT
Rod area	.BPR CIRCLE , .AEL PROFILE
Beam and Bar section	.BPR , .AEL PROFILE	.BPR PROFILE sections:I.L2 (NX L section).T.CIRCLE0 (NX TUBE section).RECT (NX BAR section).RECT0 (NX BOX section).U (NX CHAN section).ZD2 (NX Z section).User defined AIRE, IU, IV, IT, ZC, YC, ALPHA, AY, AZ, stress recovery POINTS (NX User Defined Properties section).
Beam orientation (Beam property)	.BEAM PLANZ, .BEAM PLANY	The PLANZ or PLANY option is automatically chosen according to the beam orientation.
Beam orientation (Beam Cross Section property)	.CHB
Nonstructural mass	.PHP SMAS (shell).PHP LMAS (beam, rod)
Default thickness	.PHP THICK
Bush stiffnesses (linear and nonlinear laws)	.MCC KT* KR* FET* FER*
Bush viscous damping (linear and nonlinear laws)	.MCC CT* CR* FAT* FAR*
Bush damage criteria	.MCC FRU* MRU* TAU ADEL DDEN
Bush orientation	.MCC FRM1
Non local behavior	.HYP NON LOCAL
JGAP properties	.JER SERRAGE BUTEE L H	For contact mesh and surface contact.
Thermal fluid flow element properties	.PHP SEC PRM
Type of damping (.AMO)	.AMO ALPHA HYST IHYST
Damping coefficient	.AMO ALPHA	For 3D structural (solid, solid laminate, predefined laminate, rod property, thin shell, laminate, membrane, beam property, beam cross-section property)For 2D solid axisymmetric, plane stress, and plane strain (solid 2D plane, axisymmetric solid, axisymmetric shell, axisymmetric membrane, plane stress rod, shell 1D plane, membrane 1D plane)

Property	Simcenter Samcef commands and parameters	Remark
Thickness	.PHP THICK
Shell offsets	.AEL EXCE, .AEL NXCE
Shell MIND	.AEL MIND
Beam offset	.AEL EXCE
Beam release pin flags	.AEL L0 - -
Bush offsets	.MCC LOCA ECC1 ECC2 ECC3 FRM2
Cohesive element offsets	.AEL EL1 2 EXCE
User Element Attributes (AEL card)	.AEL
Mass properties	.MASS MASS (mass).MASS MX MY MZ (mass along axis).MASS MI* (inertia).MASS FRM (orientation).MASS EXC (offset), .MASS OFS (offset)
Rigid Link properties	.RBE MASS MI* OPT CM KTRA KROT MAT.RBE DUMMY
Mean element constraint option	.MEAN CM
Nonlinearities (NLIS)	.AEL NLIS
Incompressible Condition (BULK)	.AEL BULK	Structural solid elements only.
Volume (VOLU), Mass (MASS), Surface Flux (FLU), Surface Convection (SCON) and Surface Radiation (SRAD)	.MCC CAPA MASS.MCC VOLU SFLU SCON SRAD	For thermal nodal capacity element.
Material Orientation Method	.AEL THETA / FRAME

JGAP Physical Property dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Thin Shell dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Bush Property dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Cohesive Property dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Membrane dialog box (Simcenter Samcef Structure)

Membrane dialog box (Simcenter Samcef Thermal)

Fluid Flow dialog box (Simcenter Samcef Thermal)

Nodal Capacity dialog box (Simcenter Samcef Thermal)

Solid dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Beam Property dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Rod Property dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

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Physical and element properties support (Simcenter Samcef), Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series

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