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    HI, All, I am new to Pro/Mechani

    HI, All, I am new to Pro/Mechanica. I am trying a simple practice problem with composite shell elements. I have a solid thin plate. Since I can not use "shell pair" as I can not assigned laminate property to a "Shell pair", I try to use the just the top surface. I assign the laminate property...
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    Composite Failure Analysis

    The default output for composite failure analysis is the "Failure Index". Is there any way to output the "Margin of Safety" or "Factor of Safety"? For Tsai-Hill or Maximum Stress Criteria, we can calculate the Facotr of Safety from failure index. However, with Tsai-Wu or Hoffman, it is not easy...
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    Composite Ply stress from SOL 109 or 112

    I was not able to recover the composite ply stress or failure index when I was running a transient analysis with either SOL 109 or SOL 112. I tried to set NOCOMPS to be 0, 1 or -1. Just no ply stress (I can get element stresses and element forces though). Anybody has this type of experience or...

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