EL2MAT

Bulk Data Entry Used to assign material ID to elements.

Format

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
EL2MAT ID                
  ELSETID MTYPE MATID ELSETID MTYPE MATID      
  ELSETID MTYPE MATID ELSETID MTYPE MATID      
  ect                

Alternate Format

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
EL2MAT ID ALTER              
  MATID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID  
    ELSETID ELSETID etc etc        
  MATID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID ELSETID  
    ELSETID ELSETID etc etc        

Example

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EL2MAT 3                
  8 MAT1 4            

Alternate Format Example

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
EL2MAT 3 ALTER              
  4 8 2            

Definitions

Field Contents SI Unit Example
ID Identification number of EL2MAT.

No default (Integer > 0).

 
ALTER ALTER flag indicating the alternate format is being used.  
ELSETID Element set identification number.

No default (Integer > 0).

 
MTYPE (Optional) Property type.
MAT1, MAT8, ...

No default.

 
MATID Material identification number.

No default (Integer > 0).

 

Comments

  1. The EL2MAT Bulk Data Entry can be used to assign Material ID’s to Element sets.
  2. The ID field is only used by HyperMesh. When ECHO entry is present in the model, all EL2MAT entries are combined into one EL2MAT entry with an internally generated ID. The ID of the EL2MAT entries are not used in OptiStruct.