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[ariel.lusty]

Hi all,

I'm trying to model a quadratically tapered composite beam in Ansys Composite PrepPost. The shelled beam looks like this:

I want the cross-section to look like the figure below, where the blue lines are unidirectional plies, yellow are adhesives, red are biaxial plies, and green is foam. 

Unfortunately, when I'm modeling the web, the plies on the right are passing through the foam. 

Does anyone know how I can make it so the plies do not pass through the foam?

Kind regards,

Ariel

Also, there are the modeling groups if that's helpful at all. 

[Raman Babu]

Hello Ariel,

Have you looked at the ACP workshop example on  T-Joint? It is similar to your case." If you have not checked it, please review it once.

Since you are generating solid elements, please keep a coarser mesh around the corner region. Also, it should be larger than the thickness of a ply otherwise solid corner elements may intersect each other.

Regards,

Raman Babu