LS-DYNA composite shells to regular shells

Razvan

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?

PaulAltair

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

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.