Varying material property throughout shell

Hi there,

I'd like to get some ideas regarding calculating the deflection on a shell that has some varying material property.

Specifically a varying percentage of carbon fibre throughout the shell. I know that tensile strength reduces but that Young's modulus increase along with the percentage of carbon fibre.

Is this feasible with Karamba? If so could you share your thoughts? At this stage, I'm just looking to prove feasibility rather than getting accurate metrics.

Thanks,

Charles

Ps: Filler bellow is carbon fibre

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Charles Fried on July 18, 2018 at 7:29am

Carbon Fiber (CF), Graphene nano-sheets (GN)

Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on July 23, 2018 at 1:11pm

Hi Charles,

in karamba3d 1.3.0 it is possible to define multiple materials on shells using the 'Shell Var'-cross section (see drop-down list of the 'Cross Section'-component).

Best,

Clemens

Permalink Reply by Charles Fried on July 26, 2018 at 4:38am

Hi Clemens,

Thanks for pointing this out, would you simply specify one material for each face of the mesh?

Thanks,

Charles

Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on July 26, 2018 at 10:40am

Yes.

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