Beam properties

To assign the section and material properties to the beams choose:

Data->Laminate properties

As the sections of the beams are rectangular for this example, choose condition over lines: Naval stiffeners .

Press the button Create/Edit , and another set of entries for defining the laminate properties will be displayed. There are some materials already included in the program libraries, but in this particular case a new material will be defined.

In the first pane, it is possible to define all the material particularities, in case a new one is needed:

In the next pane, the user can assign the type of laminate for each choosen material. There can be defined multiple tyes of layers of different materials.

Finally, the section of the stiffener has to be defined:

The conditions that have been assigned and their local axes can be viewed with the Draw button in the conditions window .