Result of FEA does not change, on changing the Material properties with same load

I have written a code for structural analysis of block with a hole at centre as shown below. The problem arises when i change the material properties (Young's Modulus, Density, Poison Ratio) while keeping the force same, result does not chnge.

STL file has been attached with this question.

clear all;
model = createpde('structural','static-solid');
importGeometry(model,'block1.stl');
figure
pdegplot(model,'FaceLabels','on')
rotate3d on
force = 200;
YM = 2e11;
PR = 0.3;
Mass_Density = 7850;
Mesh_Size = 0.8;
structuralProperties(model,'YoungsModulus',YM,'PoissonsRatio',PR,'MassDensity',Mass_Density);
structuralBC(model,'Face',11,'Constraint','Fixed');
structuralBoundaryLoad(model,'face',9,'SurfaceTraction',[0,force,0]);
generateMesh(model,'Hmax',Mesh_Size,'Hmin',Mesh_Size,'GeometricOrder','Quadratic');
figure
pdeplot3D(model)
rotate3d on
result = solve(model);
figure
pdeplot3D(model,'ColorMapData',result.VonMisesStress)
title('Von Mises stress: Static Analysis')
rotate3d on
maxx = max(result.VonMisesStress);
minn = min(result.VonMisesStress);

[KSSV]

May be you need to have a look on the boundary conditions.....are you sure the boundary conditions applied are correct?

[Rajbir Singh]

Yes the bounday conditions are fine.

Answer 1

[infinity]

Hello,

I have run your code, results were not constants when parameters had changed.

For example, if you set "PR" (poisson ratio) to be 0.4, the results of von misses stress are different in comparision with PR = 0.3.

Max and min of von misses stress do not change in case of variety of young modulus. But, the displacement is changed.

If you extract the maximum of displacement, you could see this.

max(result.Displacement.uz)

It is seen that the displacment (at least in z direction) depend linearly on young modulus. For example,

for YM = 2e5, max(result.Displacement.uz) = 4.7362e-03

for YM = 2e9, max(result.Displacement.uz) = 4.7362e-07

for YM = 2e11, max(result.Displacement.uz) = 4.7362e-09

Maybe the von misses stress is normalized, so that we could not see the change of von misses stress when YM changes.

[Rajbir Singh]

Thank you Mr. Trung, it helped me.

I have one more question that what is the unit of mesh size that we use to generate mesh ? Or is depends upon the STL file units that we import ?

[infinity]

Hello,

You are wellcome.

I have checked the difference between various mesh size. It shown that when the mesh size changes, number of elements and nodes also varies. For example,

for Mesh_Size = 0.8;

size(model.Mesh.Elements)
size(model.Mesh.Node

is biger than for Mesh_Size = 0.9;

Therefore, the answer is yes.