Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Congratulations SDETERS on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

2D Elements in Workbench Issue

Thread starter sarclee
Start date Jun 11, 2022

Status: Not open for further replies.

Jun 11, 2022

sarclee

Mechanical

I would like to model 2D elements for orthotropic material properties but the properties I set for Z direction is assumed as very small value as I do not have test data.

Should I use 3D in model type or 2D with plane stress? I am not sure what error do I have when I set it to plane stress