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[Daniel Cole]

I'm working of a composite structure where a top and bottom section come together in its rear region. In reality this will be two composite layups (top/bottom surfaces) which meet in the layup stage of manufacture, creating a region twice the thickness of the individual layups.

I imported a solid model, created shell surfaces, then fully defined the project in ACP (the solid model is of correct dimsions concerning the thickness, and the individual plies are defined in ACP to reflect this).

However, whenever I load up the mesh in static structural I see that the the two surfaces are not meeting at the rear. Is there any way in which I can force the two surfaces to meet within static structural? Further, if I can get the surfaces to meet, how can I define them such that Ansys recognises that they are bonded as a region of 8 plies, not simply 2 layers of 4 plies each which are just in contact with eachother? Would this be contained within contacts?

[Aniket]

being answered here: /forum/forums/topic/how-to-make-two-meeshed-regions-behave-as-a-solid-body/

will close this one now as duplicate.

-Aniket

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