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Solid Section

*Solid Section, Elset = <element set name>, Material = <material name>

Deprecated with upcoming release

With the upcoming release *Solid Section will be replaced by *Assign Material. Backward compatibility will be ensured.

This option links material definitions (and properties) to solid (continuum) elements. All sub-keywords are mandatory. 

  • Elset = <element set name>

    Set this parameter equal to the name of the element set to which the properties are defined.

  • ```numgeo
Material = <material name>
```

    Set this parameter equal to the name of the material to be used with these elements.

    The chosen material does not have to be defined previous to the solid section, but within the scope of the "Model definition section". While reading the model definition of the input file, the existence of the assigned material and element set is checked.

Do not place within part definition

The solid section should be placed outside the part/instance definition.