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Composite ply strain

Thread starter IdeaEngineer
Start date Jul 6, 2010

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Jul 6, 2010

IdeaEngineer

Aerospace

Hi everyone,

I am trying to view the strain in the x direction of some plies in my laminate. However what Patran outputs is the strain in the 1 and 2 direction of my plies instead of the x-y direction. Does anybody know how I can output the strain in the x-y?

Thank you,