Analysis of a composite reinforced shell

The example used to describe the shell analysis will be simple reinforced shell:

For basic reference, this example can be found in the distribution, directory Examples/RamSeries5 and with the name manual-laminateShell-ex8.gid

The first step is to create the geometry. It can be defined using the GiD preprocessing commands described in the GiD manual. The following commands can be useful:

Geometry->Create->Object->Rectangle

Utilities->Copy (Surfaces)->Translation (Multiple copies: 3)

The final model will be composed of 4 surfaces, 13 lines and all of its connecting points.

The two corners defining the initial rectangle are:

A

0.00 0.00 0.00

D

1.00 0.25 0.00