[Material Designer] Homogenized Properties of a Sheet?

- July 10, 2023 at 8:27 pm
  
  Marissa Jacovich
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  Can the Material Designer module be used to find the homogenized properties of an imported RVE that patterns in X and Y directions, but not in Z? For example, a single layer corrugated sheet.
  Thanks for your help.
- July 12, 2023 at 12:16 pm
  
  John Doyle
  Ansys Employee
  
  The Material Designer Docs do not list corrugated sheet as an RVE model type option, in particular. However, there is a "honeycomb" option - described as consisting of cells with hexagonal shape repeated in two dimensions. Would that work? See Section 2.1.8 of the Material Designer User's Guide.
  - July 12, 2023 at 1:26 pm
    
    Marissa Jacovich
    Subscriber
    
    Hi John. No, this would not work. A honeycomb RVE is a valid pattern in 3 axes. A corrugated sheet, only two. There is an option for woven composites, so theoretically Material Designer knows how to handle repeating in two dimensions - I just haven't found a way to toggle this ability with a user-defined RVE.

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