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    Stress and Strain in Patran op2

    Hello to everyone, i'm trying to modify a nastran op2 file containing composite stress results. I can have stress and strain at the same time so to evaluate, for each ply, one of these two results. What i'm interested in doing is to have, for each ply, the scalar result of the operation...
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    Honeycomb Failure

    Hello SWComposites first of all thanks a lot for the answer and the references you gave me. Relative to the core properties i've been able to find, experimentally and through the vendor all the data i need. I'm checking core shear and crimping as well and this, having a PSHELL/PCOMP model is a...
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    Honeycomb Failure

    Hello to everyone, i need to assess the strength of a sandwich construction and i'm doing some simulations using MSC/Nastran. I would like to know how can i check the core for wrinkling, crimping, core shear and so on. Can somebody of you help me out? I'm using carbon fibre skins with an...
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    multiple processor

    use this nastran filename.bdf parallel=n where n is the number of processors you want to address to the solution's process. N.B. You can have speedups only in normal modes and transient solutions. Linear and non linear solutions do not benefit too much of the secon processor, at least with...

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