Abaqus Shell Thickness Question?

[structvt]

I am modeling a cold form steel shell element in Abaqus and I have to apply different thicknesses to it. My question is how does Abaqus apply the thickness? What I mean is does it extrude half the total thickness on each side of the element or extrude the full thickness in one direction? And can it be specified?

Thank You

 

[structvt]

I forgot to add something also.

I am goign to be using S9R5 meshing and I have read up online that CAE can do ti but you have to bring up FEMGEN in CAE to actually apply that meshing to it since its not a typical mesh option. I was just wondering if anybody has had experience with this and knows how to get FEMGEN to come up and mesh it.

 

[PetieSmo]

structvt,

Have you tried posting this to the ABAQUS forum on Eng-Tips? In fact, the question may already be answered within the archives of that forum...