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January 5, 2025 at 12:21 am
peteroznewman
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I also use FEMAP/NASTRAN to analyze composite laminate plates and like how easy it is to define the layup and build the model.

I have very little experience with composite laminate plates in Ansys. I tried it once a few years ago to see the workflow. I decided to refresh that experiece with the latest software. I found a video that shows how to use ACP (Pre) to define the stackup.  The next video shows that and how to use ACP (Post) which includes the stresses in each layer.  Hope this helps.  I'm not sure what you mean by running loads and moments.  Maybe someone else will reply to your discussion.

While I was following the second video, Ansys 2024 R2 popped up this informational message:

Following that advice, I inserted a Composite Failure Tool.