Solid-shell mesh connenction, right thickness for a shell skin (transition) elements?

MarioS

Hello all,

could someone help me with this topic.

I am doing a mesh connectivity between a solid and a shell mesh (I connected the shared nodes, it is a T-junction). I created on a solid surface a thin skin of a shell elements (as a transition between shell and a solid mesh).

How should I choose a correct thickness of that thin (skin) shell elements and how could I validate that the results with this thickness are OK, is there some mechanism to check it.

Are the CTRIA3 elements a bad choice to create a thin skin mesh or should be CQUAD4?

Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

Mario

Rogerio Nakano_21179

Hi

Please take a look into this article.

 

https://community.altair.com/community?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0116551&sys_kb_id=74a34dcf1ba72c50c4dfdbd9dc4bcb4e&spa=1

 

I hope this is helpful

Regards