Material Wizard
25R2

Supported Ansys versions:

2025 R2

Required Product:

The Material Wizard is a complete application that runs inside Rocky and enables you to calibrate your material properties easier, faster, and more reliably.

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App Description

Material Wizard does this by taking what you already know about the apparent density, angle of repose, and cohesion of your real material and translating that information into a set of ready-to-use Rocky parameters. These initial parameters are designed to be a good starting point for your particle calibration work and can help you quickly begin that part of the DEM simulation process.

For more information, please refer to the official documentation .

See also the video Introduction to the Material Wizard.

Key Benefits

Accelerates material calibration by converting real experimental data into ready-to-use Rocky parameters
Reduces trial-and-error through ROM-based optimization and data-driven parameter estimation
Improves consistency and repeatability with a standardized, database-backed workflow
Works standalone inside Rocky with no optiSLang installation required
Provides reliable starting points that shorten setup time and speed up DEM simulation studies

Use Cases

After the wizard generates the candidates, you can validate and improve upon the resulting settings by using the Rocky Calibration Suite and comparing your suite results to your real-life experiments. This wizard includes resources to calibrate properties based on three standard material calibration tests: Loose Bulk Density, Static Angle of Repose, and Dynamic Angle of Repose.