I was wondering if anybody has experience using the NEi Nastran tension only shell element. It has been a common challenge at the aerospace companies I have worked at to properly idealize the buckled behavior of thin aircraft skins and panels in a finite element model, especially at the vehicle...
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Paul
When modeling a composite laminate using MSC.Nastran the PCOMP and MAT8 (or MAT1) entries are converted before the run to an equivalent PSHELL and four MAT2 entries which are used in the actual Nastran run. I understand that three of these MAT2 cards are calculated from classical lamination...
