Assigning material properties to newly created materials

[Somayaji1995]

I am creating new material using pyAEDT in Icepak with command add_material and specifying orthotropic thermal conductivity, which is working fine , Command I am using is

New_mat=ipk.materials.add_material("NEW_MAT").thermal_conductivity=['21','21','31']

I want to add density as well as specific heat for the same, which i am unable to, can you suggest options for it.

These are the few options i tried for it which did not work

New_mat=ipk.materials.add_material("NEW_MAT").thermal_conductivity=['21','21','31'].New_mat.specific_heat("1350")
&
New_mat.specific_heat("1350")

[gmalinve]

Hi @Somayaji1995,

Have you tried:
new_mat = ipk.materials.add_material("NEW_MAT")
First you initialize the object material new_mat with the add_material() method and then you can access all its properties such as thermal conductivity, specific heat etc.
From your IDE of choice please try to type: dir(new_mat), this will returns all the available properties and methods for this object.
Then you can access your properties as:
thermal_conductivity = new_mat.thermal_conductivity=['21','21','31']
specific_heat = new_mat.specific_heat("1350")

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Giulia

[ansys-satyajeet]

Hi,

If you must assign properties for density and specific heat, please see the code lines below. It is a good practice to check if the material already exists before creating a new one. The properties of the object mat can be obtained using dir(mat) as suggested by @gmalinve above.

if not ipk.materials.checkifmaterialexists("matname"):
    mat = ipk.materials.add_material("matname")
    mat.thermal_conductivity = "400"
    mat.mass_density = "8000"
    mat.specific_heat = "700"