Material Element

The material element contains the properties of a given material grade. It contains a Grade attribute also used as the unique identifier together with density, Young’s modulus, the Poisson ratio, the yield stress, the ultimate stress and optionally the thermal expansion coefficient. See the example below.

<Material Grade="A27" Density="7790" YoungsModulus="205000" PoissonRatio="0.3"
YieldStress="270" UltimateStress="490" ThermalExpansionCoefficient="0.011"/>

By defining a number of these elements as input, a material standard can be built up inside the Product Information Model to be included in the following XML reports according to TXHSTL-R. The Grade attribute is the key to access the other values. Each time a <Material> element is given the material is either updated or created depending on whether it existed or not.