Product: Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: Using a distribution to specify spatially varying composite layer thicknesses on shell elements greatly simplifies the modeling process and improves performance for models with a significant amount of element property variation.
Description: In Abaqus/Explicit you can define composite layer thicknesses for shell elements using a distribution. This enhancement allows you to minimize the number of section definitions needed for a model that has significant variation of these features, which can lead to model simplification and performance improvements.
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