Error element normal material orientation

[VaidehiChennubhotla]

Hi ,
I am getting the following error in the .msg file. How to overcome this ?
***ERROR: The user defined normal of the material orientation of 46000
elements, as defined in *ORIENTATION, is orthogonal to the GASKET,
COHESIVE, SHELL or MEMBRANE normal direction. Check input data. The
elements have been identified in element set
ErrElemUserNormMatOrient.

ASYNCHRONOUS OUTPUT DATABASE FRAME FLUSH STARTED

Thanks,
Vaidehi

 

[FEA way]

Check the documentation chapter "Orientations" (paragraph "Use with shell, membrane, or gasket elements or contact surfaces". It describes the projection algorithm used by Abaqus when user-defined orientation is applied to aforementioned elements.