Use Shell 99 in Ansys Workbench
Use Shell 99 in Ansys Workbench
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Hi
All the structural materials i find in ANSYS Workbench are isotropic and I would like to model orthotropic and anisotropic material. I would specially like to use Shell 99 as the element in my mesh. The question is when i create the mesh Workbench chooses automatically the kind of element to use. So once in Ansys the element is chosen and i can't change it.
Does any one has any idea how to solve this?
Best regards
José Blasques
All the structural materials i find in ANSYS Workbench are isotropic and I would like to model orthotropic and anisotropic material. I would specially like to use Shell 99 as the element in my mesh. The question is when i create the mesh Workbench chooses automatically the kind of element to use. So once in Ansys the element is chosen and i can't change it.
Does any one has any idea how to solve this?
Best regards
José Blasques





RE: Use Shell 99 in Ansys Workbench
Cheers,
-- drej --
RE: Use Shell 99 in Ansys Workbench
Do you have any suggestion for this problem?
Thank you
José Blasques
RE: Use Shell 99 in Ansys Workbench
Which version of ANSYS/WB are you using? If using version 9 you should be able to mesh the surfaces with higher order plane strain/stress elements. Then, if your mesh in Workbench is fine and you're happy with it, transfer the model to ANSYS, then EMODIF the shells created in Workbench to your specified shell99 (you will have to mesh in workbench with the higher order quads in order to convert the mesh to higher order shell99 in ANSYS.
Cheers,
-- drej --