Exercise 1: Kinematic Draping for a Woven Ply Modeled with Two UDs
A dome is covered by a fabric. The fabric is idealized with two uni-directional plies. This method allows the material to be a simple, orthotropic, uni-directional ply level model. If the ply was modeled as a single woven ply, the material model would be anisotropic and vary spatially as the angle between the warp and weft directions changed. Nominal thickness of the uni-directional plies is 0.5 * woven thickness.
This exercise uses the dome.hm file, which can be found in the hm.zip file. Copy the file from this directory to your working directory.
Load the User Profile
In this task you will load the OptiStruct user profile.
- Start HyperMesh Desktop.
- In the User Profile dialog, select OptiStruct.
- Click OK.
Open the Model File
In this task you will open the model file, dome.hm.
Drape Plies and Review Results
In this task you will drape the uni-directional plies.
Review Results