Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

How to define the material propertes in axial symmetry

Status
Not open for further replies.

woodunb

Agricultural
Joined
May 2, 2009
Messages
3
Location
CA
Hi
I want to define a half cylindrical shell with a symmetric with respect to the central axis. At each point in the shell wall, it has a local orthogonal coordinate system. it has different properties in longitudinal, radial and tangential directions. How can I define this in ABAQUS? Thanks for help
 
Look at "*Orientation" in documentation, you can define local material orientation based on nodal coordinates.

Also, you ca define Cylindrical coord systems.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top