Unable to Successfully Close Material Property Setting in Specific Time Period

[ggb074113]

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Question

Hello! I have utilized the timeperiod functionality within the control module to dynamically set the material properties within a certain block. Specifically, I aim for the same material within the same block to have three different property values across three distinct time periods. Therefore, I have configured each timeperiod to enable the corresponding material property while attempting to disable the other two.
However, during actual simulation runs, I have observed that one of the material properties remains consistently enabled. Even when I explicitly specify to disable it within a certain timeperiod, it stays enabled.

[ggb074113]

When I try to close mat5， mat5 still can't close

[GiudGiud]

What I didn't expect was that mat4 and mat5 were always enabled between 0 and 0.4s, and correctly disabled after 0.4

Do you have a log showing this? This is not what I expect from the snippet

Note that should copy paste the input snippets rather than paste screenshots.

[ggb074113]

testtimeperiod.zip
I followed https://github.com/idaholab/moose/blob/next/test/tests/controls/time_periods/materials/material.i and wrote the above file according to my problem for testing, and found that the same problem occurred in this problem, is there something wrong with the way I write the input file or is it due to other reasons? The details of the output are as follows：
testtimeperiod.zip

[GiudGiud]

Can you please use a public git repo instead of a zip file?

[ggb074113]

I'm sorry I'm not very good at using GitHub, which has caused you inconvenience. Just now, I did a simple test based on a situation similar to my problem according to https://github.com/idaholab/moose/blob/next/test/tests/controls/time_periods/materials/material.i. My input file and results are as follows: https://github.com/ggb074113/timeperiod_test-3times_matChange.git

[GiudGiud]

no worries.
Sorry for the delay, I was traveling

you need to add reverse_on_false = false to each TimePeriod. This makes sure they dont all "act" outside of the exact times they turn on/off