Tuesday, 5 February 2013

How does one specify the ply directions in a flat (plane) composite shell in ABAQUS?

Here a rectangular local co-ordinate system is defined using the *ORIENTATION statement for each of the plies. The Z axis is the normal axis to the rectangular plate. The ply directions are specified as a rotation about the normal for all 3 plies. 

The rest of the data required to completely define the shell properties are given below : 

The following figure illustrates a PLY direction of -30 degrees ( anti-clockwise about normal is taken as positive). 


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