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  1. sccorpioh1

    Nastran composites FEA

    Here is an API that will create a group with the laminate elements with no orientation. The Nastran team send me this. By the way, when i said they could not help me, i meant, at that instant, and not that they were not capable. Sorry for the missleading coment Nastran support team. You guys...
  2. sccorpioh1

    Lightning Protection

    I'm trying to determine which expanded foil (aluminum or copper) to use for lightning protection of the fuselage and wing of a business jet. I already followed SAE recommendations to establish the lightning zones and read through the lightning environment SAE document, which confused me even...
  3. sccorpioh1

    Nastran composites FEA

    Thanks dmacx. The Nastran support team told me the same thing. I tried finding the elemets. I imported the bulk data to excel and started looking. After looking through about 15000 elements and finding about 100 elements with no number in those spots, i gave up. I still had 25000 elements to go...
  4. sccorpioh1

    Nastran composites FEA

    Does anyone know how to detect or display which elements are missing an orientation in Nastran 9. I use Femap as the modeler and before Femap calls Nastran I get an error that says: "18 laminate elements were written with default orientation. Usualy laminates require a specific orientation". My...

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