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Represent a composite I beam on Abaqus

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aurelie689

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Hello everyone,

I would like to create a composite I beam on abaqus. For this I want to use the tool "create a composite layup" in material section.I watched a simulia video explaining how to create it from a 2D sketch, so I sketched my "I" with the diffrent layers but I encounter always the same error : "section must not self intersect".
I join a photo of my sketch and the error.

Thank you in advance for your help!
 
The sketch can't be self intersecting, so you can draw the outer boundaries of your I beam and then partition your part afterwards.
 
ok thank you, but how can I draw the different layers of the beam when I sketch it?
 
You can partition the beam and then assign layups to each partition.
 
Ok thank you! Sorry to bother I am a beginner with this software. Anyway since I have to partition the sketch what type of part should I create? a wire? because otherwise when I quit the sketch it is extruded.
 
Finally I made a partition on my extruded beam. So far it seems to work...
 
I finally arrived to the data check of my job however I got en error that says "Lamina material only work with plane stress". Should I use an orthotropic material instead of lamina for my beam?
 
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