Shell Thickness Output in SimLab

User: "AndreaFORM"
Altair Community Member
Updated by AndreaFORM

Dear All,

I'd like to calculate and output the thinning of SHELL elements during a Structural simulation in SimLab.

In HyperMesh (Optistruct) this is done using the output card THICKNESS (https://2021.help.altair.com/2021.1/hwsolvers/os/topics/solvers/os/thickness_io_r.htm)

Is it possible to do it in SimLab too?

Many thanks,

Andrea

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    User: "Adriano_Koga"
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    Updated by Adriano_Koga

    Hi,

     

    this THICKNESS card is not targetted for thinning of the part during the analysis. It is targeted for Optimization purposes (parametric and free-size), where the design variable is the thickness of the part/elements.

    There used to be a THIN output for thinning, but this was an old integration to Radioss run, if I recall correctly, and this is not used anymore.

     

    i take it back...thickness variation is indeed available for LGDISP run, requesting THICKNESS output.

    In SimLab you could add it as 'Text Data'

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