Define Projectile Material Properties

During the generation of nodes and/or elements in BALANS, the projectile material property table is assembled using the properties defined for each component defined in the PRODAS Model Editor.

The Elements/Materials tab show two tables. The top table displays element information while the bottom table displays material definitions. Note that each element has a MaterialID which ties it to a material in the material table. Since a model may be composed of many components made up of the same material, you may find more than one material in the table with the same properties. The program tries to consolidate like materials but if there are duplicates it does not cause a problem within the In-Bore Balloting analysis.

Material properties can be edited in the material table before running the analysis but remember if you Generate or Regenerate the Balans model a new table will be created based on the Projectile definition.