; Standard Polylactic acid (PLA) Material ; (c) 2013 Juergen Riegel (CC-BY 3.0) ; information about the content of such cards you can find here: ; http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Material [General] ; General name, need to be the same as the file name Name=PLA ; Father of PLA is Thermoplast Father=Thermoplast ; more elaborate description of this material card: Description: This is a blend Steel material card. The values are at the low end of the spectrum. If you need a more precise material definition use the more specialised steel cards. ; Specific wight in kg/mm^3 SpecificWeight=1.27e-06 ; No special Vendor Vendor: ; For blend materials the wikipedia page is a good source of information: ProductURL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid ; for blends a rough estimation SpecificPrice= 4 [Mechanical] ; youngs modulus (or E-Module) (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_modulus) YoungsModulus=3.64e+03 MPa ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength UltimateTensileStrength= 49.6 MPa [FEM] PoissonRatio = 0.36