July 27, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Ansys Employee
Hello Rico,
Please see if the following helps. Thanks.
Mat_117 is a resultant shell formulation and no stresses are computed. As per the materials manual's note: 1. This material does not support specification of a material angle for each through-thickness integration point of a shell. 2. The objective of this resultant formulation is to provide a fast and cheap approximation for the composite material behavior without having to to integrate thru' the many layers of material layers. Therefore, ALL the resultant formulated materials 116, 117, 118, 130, 139, 166, 170 are default to 1 thru' thickness integration point.