Unfortunately this assignment we had to use the APDL script. For the material properties, the script was relatively simple:
MPTEMP,1,0,700
MP,EX,1,12E6,-8E3
TB,BKIN,1,2
TBTEMP,0.0
TBDATA,1,44E3,1.5E6
TBTEMP,700
TBDATA,1,29.33E3,2E6
/XRANGE,0,0.02
TBPLOT,BKIN,1
now...