Jeroen52
Aerospace
- Jul 4, 2013
- 9
I will be doing a bolt-plate contact analysis. I do not care about accurately capturing the through-thickness stress distribution, I am mostly interested in the in-plane stresses.
For this purpose I have determined that a single solid element through thickness will be my model of choice. This gives me the necessary vertical surface (and thus in-plane element normal) so that I can detect contact with the bolt shank.
Is it possible to define a single solid element with the properties of a full composite layup? I.e. I would like ABAQUS to calculate the A,B,D,G matrices and use these as the constitutive equations for my single element.
It seems that the "solid composite layups" option is what I want, however when I start to define this option it asks me to input the region for each ply? What I really want to be asked is to input the plies for each region...
Is this possible/how might I do it?
For this purpose I have determined that a single solid element through thickness will be my model of choice. This gives me the necessary vertical surface (and thus in-plane element normal) so that I can detect contact with the bolt shank.
Is it possible to define a single solid element with the properties of a full composite layup? I.e. I would like ABAQUS to calculate the A,B,D,G matrices and use these as the constitutive equations for my single element.
It seems that the "solid composite layups" option is what I want, however when I start to define this option it asks me to input the region for each ply? What I really want to be asked is to input the plies for each region...
Is this possible/how might I do it?