ANSYS Composite Material Design

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  1. Yousra Anwar
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    Hi,
    I am Preparing a midship section by using the Ansys for a composite material boat, I am using Shell 181 for & Solid 185 for the foam core stiffeners , shall I used a contact between the hull shell 181 & Solid185 or there is a way to glue them together?
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    Yousra

    You need to be careful here. Do you have any data to validate the elements and their build up and the final properties post layup? Otherwise you're focusing on getting a model that in the FE is "correct" but does not reflect reality. Getting meaningful data from FEA when using composites is not as straight fwd as it is with typical isotropic materials.
     
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    Thank you for the advise..I am Preparing my master degree in conposite material optimisation.. I have already prepared all the calculations for the conposite.. I have treated it as orthotropic material.. I have also chosrn shell 181 in order to enter layer by layer..the only problem I have so far is the Ansys...I really dont know is there a way to glue shell 181 to solid 185.. Is there another way to prepare the stiffeners and in the mean time shows the unidirectional fiber on th crown only and the different layers that covers the whole section
     
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    What is shell 181 and solid 185? Product code?
     
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    Shell 181 & Solid 185 elements of Ansys, Sorry I really don't know what you mean by product code. please advise
     
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    I thought you were referring to a Shell composite product.

    You are mixing up the analysis method. In aerospace technology, laminates consist typically of a large number of thin plies of the same material of (about 0.010”) ply thickness. The multiple plies are arranged in a progressive angle orientation (0, 30, 45, 60, 90 degree) to achieve a balanced laminate where it yields an isotropic property in in-plane loads. The laminate is treated as a homogenous material with a degraded material property to take care of out of plane loads. In short, the material is treated as a dense material with an isotropic material property like metal. Preliminary design analysis can therefore establish the baseline for optimization before fine tuning with FEA.

    In marine structures, laminate consists of much fewer but thicker plies. Varying materials are also used other than UD fiber. This makes it sensitive to out of plane loads, ply angle, distance to neutral axis, tensile/compressive strength, fiber volume ratio, ect. For significant out of plane loads, the “homogenous material” treatment renders the results somewhat impractical and meaningless for marine structures. For multiple layers of varying materials and layer by layer analysis the “maximum strain theory” is a better method. The method becomes more practical when the need for stiffener/plate combination is analyzed.

    Attached is the tabulation of maximum strain theory (by M. Hollmann) as applied to complex aircraft structures. This method is also used with slight variations, by Lloyds, ABS, BV, and ISO, to name a few.
     

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    Just a bit of advice, throw away the M. Hollmann books. There are dozens of reputable books on laminate analysis that will give you better information. I'm not going into Hollmann's issues, let's just say he is infamous within the aerospace industry.;)
     
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    RD,
    I have better books and softwares but Hollmann has the basics. Sure there was a lot of typo errors in there and gave me some headaches but since I have straightened it out, I still refer to it from time to time.
     
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    Just to inform you, M. Hollmann passed away last year. May he rest in peace. In the early days of composite, he was the guy to run to. I share some of his friends.

    For the issue, here is what they say:
    "I was poking around the web and came across this page announcing the death of Martin Hollmann, to cancer, on 12 Oct 2012.

    Hollmann designed the composite 6-place Stallion aircraft and wrote/published many books on amateur/homebuilt composite design. No author receives universal acclaim and I know there has been some critique on this board about some of his design methods, but I think it's fair to say many find his books provide useful references in a field where there's a paucity of information for the non-professional designer.

    Anyway, because he's well known among the "fibers and goo" crowd here, I wanted to pass the word along. To those who knew him, my condolences for your loss.

    Mark" http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/f...igner-author-martin-hollmann-passes-away.html
     
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    I am not familiar with Ansys. However in the FEA I use, Cosmos/M, there is a feature where you can "bond" the 2 element types together, and selecting how the translation is to be performed. I am assuming there is a similar feature in Ansys, otherwise you may have to do this manually and iteratively.

    You mat find this forum of use on the subject too:
    http://www.xansys.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=66010&sid=77aa2f3e068db7808c459cf42cff6199
     
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    Thank you very much I will Check it :)
     
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    Hi, I'm not a Ansys user but have used Lusas and Strand. You need to be careful when connecting plate elements to solid elements. You have to check that they are coupled correctly. If you just connect the plate "on edge" it will act as a hinge. You will either need to add some analytical links or some geometry to ensure the local moment is correctly transfered. Ideally you would work in all plate elements or all solid elements. Usually I develop a design in plate elements and if an area is critical then either sub model it as a solid or do the entire thing as a solid. At each step check your assumptions are correct. Firstly in FEA you need to be clear what you are looking for. If you only require a stress plot then use plates all the way. But plates will neglect things like asymetric loading of the skins. So if you are trying to determine if a skin locally buckles then you have to use solids for the core and plates for the skins and ensure you have a contiguous mesh through the whole lot. If you use analytical links to "glue" discontiguous meshes eg a hull to a bulkhead then you ahve to be careful that you iether under constrain it or over constrain the connection. Better to build good mesh from the start. You must know what you are looking for and build a suitable model. What are you actually looking for? Cheers Peter S
     
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    You have to extend plate into solid in order to develop moment connection. Otherwise your shell member will flap like a door hinge with no moment continuity.
     
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    Hello Yousra - have you resolved your problem yet? My advice would be to model the entire structure in shell elements first. The core then becomes one of the plies in the laminate. As long as you do some basic checks to confirm the sandwich does not wrinkle its skins or delaminates then this is the best starting point. Once the design has been run and you understand its performance then you build the final model with the cores as solids and the skins tesselatted to the core. If you try to use connection type elelents between the solid and the skins (eg bonding or attachments) the solution time will be huge. Tesselation means the skins and the solids share the same nodes. Hope this helps. Plus your material mechanical data needs to be correct.Cheers Peter S
     
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