LS-DYNA composite shells to regular shells

Razvan
Razvan New Altair Community Member
edited May 2022 in Community Q&A

How to convert 

I have a shell meshed part (LS-Dyna profile) which has the thickness defined for each single element using 6 plies. The total thickness is the sum of the individual plies thicknesses. I want to convert the LS-DYNA'S  *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE TO *ELEMENT_SHELL_THICKNESS in Hypermesh while maintaining the total thickness?

Is there any way to do this?

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  • PaulAltair
    PaulAltair
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2022

    Hi, not in core, it could be scripted, but it might be easier to script it in a text editor or excel if you are only doing it once. If you can't work out how to do it, but can share your *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE cards from your .key file, I can do it for you, but I won't have time until Friday!

     

  • Razvan
    Razvan New Altair Community Member
    edited May 2022
    Paul Sharp_21301 said:

    Hi, not in core, it could be scripted, but it might be easier to script it in a text editor or excel if you are only doing it once. If you can't work out how to do it, but can share your *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE cards from your .key file, I can do it for you, but I won't have time until Friday!

     

    Thank you Paul! I thought maybe I was missing something. 

    This is a one time thing.. No script needed. I'll give it a shot using excel.

     

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