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One surface to Two surface Model Comparison

    • February 16, 2026 at 9:43 pm
      crbr245
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      Hello,

      I am trying to replicate a rectangular beam bending analysis I performed using a single rectangular surface but now using two surfaces, the second plane offset by 1.6mm to represent a halfway mark to build off of with the second surface. 

      I have used a bonded connection to connect the two surfaces that have their own specified element set, stack ups, oriented selection sets, and modeling plies but I am still running into issues with the results not matching even thought the mesh looks accurate.

      Any recommendations would be extremely helpful, thanks in advance.

    • February 16, 2026 at 10:40 pm
      peteroznewman
      Subscriber

      Since the two surface are bonded together, use a single surface with more plies and don't have any bonded contact.

      • February 16, 2026 at 10:45 pm
        crbr245
        Subscriber

        That is the process I followed for the my initial model and now I want to replicate it with multiple surfaces and have the same/similar results, if possible.

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