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The following article describes the use of the <tt>material.uniElastic</tt> command.
This command defines a uniaxial elastic material.

=Syntax=
 material.uniElastic(id,E,|nu,|rho,|aT)

where
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|id      || The material id      ||align="center"| integer  ||align="center"|-
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|E       || Young's modulus      ||align="center"| float    ||align="center"|-
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|nu      || Poisson's ratio      ||align="center"| float    ||align="center"|0.
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|rho     || density              ||align="center"| float    ||align="center"|0.
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|aT      || thermal coefficient  ||align="center"| float    ||align="center"|0.
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=Examples=
Create a uniaxial elastic material for a [[element.bar2s|bar]] [[element]].
  material.uniElastic(2, 1000.)
Create a uniaxial elastic material for a Timoshenko [[element.beam2t|beam]] [[element]].
  material.uniElastic(4, 1000., 0.25, 25., 1e-4)

=Comments=

=See also=
*[[material]] module.
*[[User guide]].

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