Quick Overview Sandwich panels are prevalent in many structural applications. The panel facesheets react the membrane and bending loads, whereas the core reacts the bulk of the transverse shear loads. Therefore, you may use the solid mesh to get better results in the...
Quick Overview Simcenter Laminate Composites (LC) allows you to optimize the fundamental properties of a laminate coupon- for example, increasing its modulus in the X direction, minimizing its mass or its thermal expansion- by modifying ply angles, ply thickness, ply...
Demo Video: Quick Overview NX Laminate Composites (NXLC) allows you to easily define laminates, assign them to 2D or 3D meshes of complex geometries, and post-process composite failure metrics. For simple parts like test coupons, creating a FEM is not required, as...
Finding optimal rigidity One common misunderstanding about sandwich structures leads many designers to overestimate overall stiffness or to stiffen sandwich structures in a less than optimal fashion. In this article, we expose the true behavior of sandwich structures...
Quick Overview This post-processing Tip & Trick will show how to efficiently use predefined Femap API and a customized toolbar for laminates. This example, created in Femap 11.22, shows a 2D laminate mudguard model. Figure 1 & Figure 2 are showing ply failure...