Shell properties

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

Data -> Properties -> Laminate properties

As the properties of the shell are isotropic for this example, choose condition over surfaces: Laminate Shell .

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.

For doing so, press the button Fiber-Resin. There, it is possible to set all the material particularities:

Afterwards, the user has to define the laminate characteristics, such as the type of material for each layer(/set of layers), the number of layers (or number of laminate sequences), or the fiber angle, in case it should be necessary. Note that the fiber angle is relative to the shells´ local axes.

Once the values are filled in, the condition must be assigned to the surface that defines the shell.

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