3.1.5.33. PathIndependent Material Wrapper

This command is used to construct a PathIndependent uniaxial material wrapper. The wrapper does not call commitState() on the wrapped material, so the stress-strain response is path-independent: the response depends only on the current strain, not on the loading history.

uniaxialMaterial PathIndependent $matTag $otherTag

Argument	Type	Description
$matTag	integer	unique material tag
$otherTag	integer	tag of a previously-defined UniaxialMaterial

Example

1. Tcl Code

uniaxialMaterial Elastic 1 100.0
uniaxialMaterial PathIndependent 2 1

2. Python Code

ops.uniaxialMaterial('Elastic', 1, 100.0)
ops.uniaxialMaterial('PathIndependent', 2, 1)

Code developed by: Michael H. Scott