Digimat-CAE/ANSYS is the interface that strongly couples Digimat-MF to ANSYS via the USER DEFINED MATERIAL capability. Digimat-MF is provided as a software library that is linked to ANSYS to offer a strong multi-scale coupling between the nonlinear micromechanical material modeling capabilities of Digimat-MF and the nonlinear implicit FEA capabilities of ANSYS. In this configuration, Digimat-MF acts as an advanced anisotropic, nonlinear and rate-dependent user defined material at each relevant integration point ANSYS FE mesh.

• Accurate Micromechanical Material Modeling:

- Nonlinear, elasto-plastic with continuous damage
- Strain rate-dependent, visco-elastic or elasto-viscoplastic matrix
- Temperature dependent: thermoelastic materials

• Accurate Nonlinear Multi-Scale Structure Modeling:

- Heterogeneous material: Anisotropic properties are a function of the local microstructure morphology
- Temperatures coming from injection simulation can be used as inputs to the coupled FE computation.

• Efficient & User Friendly Solution Procedure through the use of the Digimat-CAE/ANSYS Workbench wizard:

- Select a DIGIMAT material, or import it from the Digimat-MX database
- Prepare the DIGIMAT user material for the coupled analysis by defining the orientation file and all integration parameters.
- Update the ANSYS model with the defined DIGIMAT user material