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      <h4 class="refClassification">Layered Composite Element Property </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Defines the properties of an n-ply composite material laminate. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">PCOMP </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">PID </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Z0 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">NSM </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SB </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">FT </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">TREF </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">GE </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">LAM </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">MID1 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">T1 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">THETA1 </p>
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                  <td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
                     <p class="para_td">SOUT1 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">MID2 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">T2 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">THETA2 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SOUT2 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">MID3 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">T3 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">THETA3 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SOUT3 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">-etc.- </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">181 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">-0.224 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">7.45 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">10000.0 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">HOFF </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">171 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">0.056 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">0. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">YES </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">45. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">-45. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">90. </p>
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Fields:</div>
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                     <p class="para_td">PID </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Property identification number.  (0 &lt; Integer &lt; 10000000) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Z0 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Distance from the reference plane to the bottom surface.  See Remark <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref82832');return(false);">37-10. </a> (Real; Default = -0.5 times the element thickness.) 
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                     <p class="para_td">NSM </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Nonstructural mass per unit area.  (Real) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SB </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Allowable shear stress of the bonding material (allowable interlaminar shear stress).  Required if FT is also specified.  (Real &gt; 0.0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">FT </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Failure theory.  The following theories are allowed (Character or blank.  If blank, then no failure calculation will be performed): </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;HILL&rdquo; for the Hill theory. </p>
                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;HOFF&rdquo; for the Hoffman theory. </p>
                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;TSAI&rdquo; for the Tsai-Wu theory. </p>
                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;STRN&rdquo; for the Maximum Strain theory. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">TREF </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Reference temperature.  See Remark <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#refPDLFj217lori');return(false);">37-3. </a> (Real; Default = 0.0) 
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                     <p class="para_td">GE </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Damping coefficient.  See Remarks <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#refKDjHi2c0lori');return(false);">37-4</a> and <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#reflVGjqa0lori');return(false);">37-12. </a> (Real; Default = 0.0) 
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                     <p class="para_td">LAM </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Laminate Options.  (Character or blank, Default = blank). See Remark <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref58902');return(false);">37-13. </a></p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;Blank&rdquo; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">All plies must be specified and all stiffness terms are developed. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;SYM&rdquo; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Only plies on one side of the element centerline are specified. The plies are numbered starting with 1 for the bottom layer. If an odd number of plies are desired, the center ply thickness (T1 or TN) should be half the actual thickness. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;MEM&rdquo; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">All plies must be specified, but only membrane terms (MID1 on the derived PSHELL entry) are computed. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;BEND&rdquo; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">All plies must be specified, but only bending terms (MID2 on the derived PSHELL entry) are computed. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;SMEAR&rdquo; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">All plies must be specified, stacking sequence is ignored, MID1=MID2 on the derived PSHELL entry and MID3, MID4 and TS/T and 12I/T**3 terms are set to zero. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&ldquo;SMCORE&rdquo; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">All plies must be specified, with the last ply specifying core properties and the previous plies specifying face sheet properties. The stiffness matrix is computed by placing half the face sheet thicknesses above the core and the other half below, with the result that the laminate is symmetric about the midplane of the core. Stacking sequence is ignored in calculating the face sheet stiffness. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">MIDi </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Material ID of the various plies.  The plies are identified by serially numbering them from 1 at the bottom layer.  The MIDs must refer to MAT1, MAT2, or MAT8 Bulk Data entries.  See Remark <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref12878');return(false);">37-1. </a> (Integer &gt; 0 or blank, except MID1 must be specified.) 
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                     <p class="para_td">Ti </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Thicknesses of the various plies.  See Remark <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref12878');return(false);">37-1. </a> (Real or blank, except T1 must be specified.) 
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                     <p class="para_td">THETAi </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Orientation angle of the longitudinal direction of each ply with the material axis of the element.  (If the material angle on the element connection entry is 0.0, the material axis and side 1-2 of the element coincide.)  The plies are to be numbered serially starting with 1 at the bottom layer.  The bottom layer is defined as the surface with the largest -Z value in the element coordinate system.  (Real; Default = 0.0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SOUTi </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Stress or strain output request.  See Remarks <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref70554');return(false);">37-5</a> and <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref74659');return(false);">37-6. </a> (Character:  &ldquo;YES&rdquo; or &ldquo;NO&rdquo;; Default = &ldquo;NO&rdquo;) 
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Remarks: </div>
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            <li><a name="ref12878"></a><p class="para_item">The default for MID2, ..., MIDn is the last defined MIDi.  In the example above, MID1 is the default for MID2, MID3, and MID4.  The same logic applies to Ti. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">At least one of the four values (MIDi, Ti, THETAi, SOUTi) must be present for a ply to exist.  The minimum number of plies is one. </p>
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            <li><a name="refPDLFj217lori"></a><p class="para_item"> The TREF specified on the material entries referenced by plies are not used.  Instead TREF on the PCOMP entry is used for all plies of the element.  If not specified, it defaults to &ldquo;0.0.&rdquo; </p>
               <p class="para_item">If the PCOMP references temperature dependent material properties, then the TREF given on the PCOMP will be used as the temperature to determine material properties.  Note that MAT8 data entries do not support temperature dependent material properties. </p>
               <p class="para_item">TEMPERATURE Case Control commands are ignored for deriving the equivalent PSHELL and MATi entries used to describe the composite element. </p>
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            <li><a name="refKDjHi2c0lori"></a><p class="para_item">GE given on the PCOMP entry will be used for the element and the values supplied on material entries for individual plies are ignored.  The user is responsible for supplying the equivalent damping value on the PCOMP entry.  If PARAM,W4 is not specified GE is ignored in transient analysis.  See <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/08ref24356_1.html');return(false);">&ldquo;Parameters&rdquo; </a>. 
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            <li><a name="ref70554"></a><p class="para_item">Stress and strain output for individual plies are available in all superelement static and normal modes analysis and requested by the STRESS and STRAIN Case Control commands. </p>
            </li>
            <li><a name="ref74659"></a><p class="para_item">If PARAM,NOCOMPS is set to -1, stress and strain output for individual plies will be suppressed and the homogeneous stress and strain output will be printed.  See also Remark <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/18topic_26.html#ref96357');return(false);">37-9. </a></p>
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               <p class="para_item">In order to get STRESS failure index output, the following must be present: </p>
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                     <p class="para_item">SB, FT (= to HILL, HOFF or TSAI), and SOUTi on the PCOMP Bulk Data entry, </p>
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                  <li>
                     <p class="para_item">Stress allowables Xt, Xc, Yt, Yc, and S on all referenced MAT8 Bulk Data entries.</p>
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                     <p class="para_item">Stress allowables ST, SC, and SS on all referenced MAT1 Bulk Data entries. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">In order to get STRAIN failure index output, the following must be present:</p>
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                  <li>
                     <p class="para_item">ELSTRAIN Case Control command, </p>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                     <p class="para_item">SB, FT (= STRN), and SOUTi on the PCOMP Bulk Data entry, </p>
                  </li>
                  <li>
                     <p class="para_item">Strain allowables Xt, Xc, Yt, Yc, S, and STRN=1.0 on all referenced MAT8 Bulk Data entries.</p>
                  </li>
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            </li>
            <li>
               <p class="para_item">A function of this entry is to derive equivalent internal PSHELL and MATi entries to describe the composite element.  Any sorted echo request will also cause printout and/or punch of the derived PSHELL and MATi entries in User Information Message 4379 and/or the punch file. However, if these equivalent PSHELL and MAT2 entries are input, then stress or strain output for individual plies is not available and PARAM,NOCOMPS,-1 must be supplied. </p>
            </li>
            <li><a name="ref96357"></a><p class="para_item">The failure index for the boundary material is calculated as Failure Index = (&tau;<sub class="subscript">1<em>z</em></sub>, &tau;<sub class="subscript">2<em>z</em></sub>)/SB. 
               </p>
            </li>
            <li><a name="ref82832"></a><p class="para_item">If the value specified for Z0 is not equal to -0.5 times the thickness of the element and PARAM,NOCOMPS,-1 is specified, then the homogeneous element stresses are incorrect, while lamina stresses and element forces and strains are correct.  For correct homogeneous stresses, use ZOFFS on the corresponding connection entry. </p>
            </li>
            <li>
               <p class="para_item">An unsymmetrical layup or the use of Z0 to specify an unsymmetrical layup, is not recommended in buckling analysis or the calculation of differential stiffness.  Also, Z0 should not be used to specify an unsymmetrical layup. </p>
            </li>
            <li><a name="reflVGjqa0lori"></a><p class="para_item">To obtain the damping coefficient GE, multiply the critical damping ratio C/C<sub class="subscript">o</sub> by 2.0. 
               </p>
            </li>
            <li><a name="ref58902"></a><p class="para_item">The SYM option for the LAM option computes the complete stiffness properties while specifying half the plies. The MEM, BEND, SMEAR and SMCORE options provide the following special purpose stiffness calculations: MEM option only considers membrane effects, BEND option only considers bending effects, SMEAR ignores stacking sequence and is intended for cases where the sequence is not yet known, SMCORE allows simplified modeling of a sandwich panel with equal face sheets and a central core. </p>
            </li>
            <li>
               <p class="para_item">Element output for the SMEAR and SMCORE options are produced using the PARAM NOCOMPS -1 methodology that suppresses ply stress/strain results and prints results for the equivalent homogeneous element. </p>
            </li>
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Remarks related to SOL 601: </div>
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            <li>
               <p class="para_item">Z0, NSM, SB, FT, TREF, GE, LAM, and SOUTi are ignored. </p>
            </li>
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