To assign the steel stiffened shell properties and the stiffener section, choose:
Data-> Properties -> Stiffened Shells
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To assign the properties to the shell, the values are:
- Local axes system Automatic is chosen. This way, by choosing Stiffener Direction Y, it will coincide with the local axes direction Y', which is the desired stiffeners direction.
- Thickness is the width of the shell in the orthogonal direction to the shell surface.
- Clearance is the distance between the stiffeners.
- One Steel Section must be selected for the stiffener.
Once the values are filled in, the condition must be assigned to the surfaces desired to have this shell properties..
The conditions that have been assigned can be viewed with the Draw button in the conditions window .