From 217598fcb8823cacee0802aab4ecf2fdd173b756 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chandu Bolisetti Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:08:51 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Fixing material parameter description in computeLRIslatorElasticity. Closes #326. --- src/materials/ComputeLRIsolatorElasticity.C | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/materials/ComputeLRIsolatorElasticity.C b/src/materials/ComputeLRIsolatorElasticity.C index b4a6939878..bb7da1c409 100644 --- a/src/materials/ComputeLRIsolatorElasticity.C +++ b/src/materials/ComputeLRIsolatorElasticity.C @@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ ComputeLRIsolatorElasticity::validParams() "Switch for modeling strength degradation due to lead core heating."); // Strength degradation // due to heating // Material properties - params.addRequiredParam("fy", "Yield stress of the bearing."); - params.addRequiredParam("alpha", "Yield displacement of the bearing."); + params.addRequiredParam("fy", "Yield strength of the bearing."); + params.addRequiredParam("alpha", + "Ratio of post-yield shear stiffness to the initial elastic shear " + "stiffness of the bearing. This is dimensionless"); params.addRequiredParam("G_rubber", "Shear modulus of rubber."); params.addRequiredParam("K_rubber", "Bulk modulus of rubber."); params.addRequiredParam("D1", "Diameter of lead core.");