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[gm906]

I am trying to model a composite leaf spring in Ansys, and what I understood so far is that it needs to be a shell part in Ansys ACP. 
What I don't understand is whether or not the software allows having multiple stacks of leaves with each leaf having different composite properties and, if possible, running the simulation for the whole body.

Any comments are much appreciated. 

[Govindan Nagappan]

You will need a surface geometry meshed with shells imported into ACP. in ACP you can define multiple layers and each layer can have different materials, thickness, fiber directions as needed. You can then export the shell composite to Mechanical. Or you can use Solid Modeling in ACP and create the solid composite

You can have multiple shells imported into ACP to build the model as well.

Check the tutorials manual to go through the process in ACP  - ACP Tutorials