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NATRAN MAT8 vs PSHELL/MAT2

Thread starter vorwald
Start date Oct 10, 2002

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Oct 10, 2002

vorwald

Aerospace

I have a mat 8 card derived from a composite laminate properties (inverse of the A matrix of the ABD), and I have PSHELL/MAT2 generated from the PCOMP card. The answers are quite a bit different. Can some explain how to compare a MAT8 card to a set of PSHELL/MAT2 cards.