Create a fiber-reinforced ply material

1. Choose Laminates tab→Materials group→Ply Materials .The Laminate Ply Material Manager dialog box is displayed.

2. From the Type list, select one of the following fiber-reinforced ply material types:UnidirectionalParticulateRandom Short Fiber****Woven

3. Click Create.The Laminate Ply Material dialog box is displayed.

4. From the Matrix Material list, select one of the materials already loaded into the FEM file or click Choose Material to select, modify, or create a material.

5. In the Matrix Volume Fraction box, enter the volume fraction of the matrix material.

6. From the Fiber Material list, select one of the materials already loaded into the FEM file or click Choose Material to select, modify, or create a material.For the woven ply material, you can specify different fiber materials for the warp fibers and the weft fibers.

7. In the Fiber Volume Fraction box, enter the volume fraction of the fiber material.The sum of the values of the Matrix Volume Fraction and the Fiber Volume Fraction should always be smaller or equal to one. If you define only one of the two values, the software computes the other by keeping the sum equal to one.

8. For the woven ply material, in the Balance Coefficient box, enter the ratio of the number of fibers that run in the warp direction and the number that run in the weft direction.

9. For the woven ply material, in the Weft Fiber Angle box, enter the angle between the weft fiber direction and the warp fiber direction.

10. You can optionally do any of the following:To assign the same thickness to all plies that reference the created ply material, in the Finish Thickness box, enter the ply thickness value.When you define a Finish Thickness value, you do not need to specify the ply thickness for the plies that reference the created ply material. You can specify the ply thickness in the Laminate Modeler dialog box, the Solid Laminate Modeler dialog box, or the Layup Modeler dialog box.To override the Tsai-Wu interaction coefficient of the matrix and fiber materials, in the Tai-Wu Interaction box, enter the value for the Tsai-Wu interaction coefficient of the ply material.To perform the laminate failure analysis on plies with unidirectional ply materials using the Puck failure theory, in the Puck group, enter the Puck failure theory coefficients.To override computed stress allowables for the ply material, on the Stress tab, from the Strength list, select User defined and enter the values for the stress allowables you want to override.To override computed strain allowables for the ply material, on the Strain tab, from the Strength list, select User defined and enter the values for the strain allowables you want to override.

11. Click OK to close the Laminate Ply Material dialog box.Follow steps 2 – 11 for each additional fiber-reinforced ply material that you want to create.

12. Click Close to close the Laminate Ply Material Manager dialog box.

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