 | Laminate shell element
Maximum number of layers = 90 (same as FEMAP limit)
Symmetric layers option
User specified bottom surface location
Non-structural mass
Reference temperature to perform thermal stress analysis
User specified stress locations (either top and bottom or middle surface of
each layer)
 | Various failure checks
Automatically calculates strain limits from the user specified stress limits
and vice versa.
Hill
Hoffman
Tsai-Wu (Tsai-Wu interaction coefficient is also considered if available)
Maximum strain
Bond failure
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| Triangular shell (3 to 6 node Isoparametric shell) |
| Honeycomb material
Available for all shell elements except Isoparametric shell |
| Strain output for shell and laminate elements |
| User specified stress location in a shell element |
| Centroid and mass moments of inertia calculations |
| HTML help based element documentation |
