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March 11, 2024 at 4:24 pm
Jim Day
Ansys Employee

Using *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE, the through-thickness integration points are located at the center of each of layer.   *ELEMENT_SHELL uses Gaussian integration by default.   Integration point locations for Gaussian integration are tabulated under *SECTION_SHELL in the User's Manual.   I would expect Gaussian integration to be more accurate.   If you increase the number of layers in *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE, I would expect the solution to improve.

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