Shell Thickness Output in SimLab

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

Adriano_Koga

Adriano A. Koga_21884 said:

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'

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.

 

Adriano_Koga

Adriano A. Koga_21884 said:

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'

Adriano_Koga

Adriano A. Koga_21884 said:

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

In SimLab you could add it as 'Text Data'

thanks to @Kristian Holm for poiting it out.

AndreaFORM

Thank you Adriano, that's what I was looking for!