Yes thank you to SWComposites and rb1957 for the clarification. In that case to answer the OP, you would have to envelope the laminate strain results on all the plies in the model.
What do you mean "overall strain"? Do you mean of all laminate elements?
I was always under the assumption that on an element basis, every ply should have the same strain.
If you turn off "Update Surface" from Geometry > Curve - From Surface, then in the meshing toolbox when you extend a surface to the solid, it will not imprint the intersection onn the surface of the solid. Either way you will eventually need to do a nonmanifold add before meshing.
This is just...
Try this
Sub Main
Dim App as femap.model
Set App = feFemap()
Dim v As femap.View
Set v = App.feView
Dim vID As Long
Dim dHeight As Double
Dim bBold As Boolean
Dim bItal As Boolean
Dim sFontName As String
App.feAppGetActiveView(vID)
v.Get(vID)...
If you request Nastran to print the results to the f06, does it have the laminate failure indices in it? I don't think Nastran provides this because they can't be calculated by the standard means like it would in a static solution.
When you select to deform the model, by default Femap scales the actually deformation 10%. This often creates confusion when using contact because the exaggerated deformation exceeds connection bodies. So when modeling contact, it's probably best to show actually deformations instead of scaled...
Very interesting conversation here. I don't want to get off topic from the original post but I saw comment from @GregLocock and I'm just curious for learning purposes. @GregLocock could you elaborate on this?
"One big thing you get from modal is the damping of each mode. That is crucial for...
Glue is going to be a 1:1 with displacements.
If you want some of sort of compliance with the "bond" you will have to use cohesive elements. But that requires the nonlinear solvers (401/402).
Perhaps some others have ways of modeling this type of thing without the advanced solvers. I am...
Where do you want the image to be copied to? Word, PowerPoint, Excel, some other program...?
I would try using App.feFilePictureCopy2(....) or App.feFilePictureSave2(....) but then pasting or importing probably depends on where you want it to go.
From the QRG for PGAP it looks like the different stiffness comes from whether it's an open gap or closed gap.
Femap exports compression stiffness as KA and tension stiffness as KB.
Here it is using SOL106https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=579ce965-3a59-438a-a8bd-e646434f64dd&file=Follower_Force_Example2021.1_sol106.neu
