Load a Stress Strain Curve

If available a Stress Strain curve may be loaded into FormingSuite. This will override the n, K, UTS and Yield Stress values. To open the materials database select Material Library from the Tools menu. Then click the double arrow button to expand the Materials DB dialog box.

1. Click the Import button under the User Defined Defined Curves: Stress Strain Curve heading.
   
   
   
   
2. In the Open dialog window, browse to the folder that contains the stress strain curve file and click Open.
   
   
   
   
3. When you open the stress-strain curve data you will be prompted to define the units used in your stress-strain curve.  Use the drop down menus to select the strain type, strain units, stress units and stress type.  Click OK to load the data.
   
   
   
4. After defining the units and clicking OK to load the data, a graph illustrating the stress-strain curve will automatically open.

5. After viewing the curve close this image and click the Save button.

NOTE: To remove the Stress Strain Curve graph, click Remove before clicking the save button. 

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