{"id":33386,"date":"2019-02-19T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mesh-refinement-through-thickness-of-a-composite-specimen-in-acp-ansys\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T10:01:58","slug":"mesh-refinement-through-thickness-of-a-composite-specimen-in-acp-ansys","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mesh-refinement-through-thickness-of-a-composite-specimen-in-acp-ansys\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesh Refinement through-thickness of a composite specimen in ACP-ANSYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to perform a tensile test on a composite specimen. I have imported my CAD (Shell) into ACP but I gave the total thickness of my sample 2.64 mm and I have meshed it (see attached image). I have found out that there is only one element through-thickness of the specimen, however this is giving a wrong results because the through-thickness mesh density is very low.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if anybody knows how to increase the mesh density (refine the mesh) through<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/439c446c-8c0a-4429-8c20-a9f1013e1e4a\/49eb6226-70f9-4159-b144-a9f900a54637_tensile-specimen-ansys.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\">-thickness?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-33386","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5558"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["400"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["33386"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["3085","162416"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["78281"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["78281"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-02-20 11:54:26"]},"test":"ahmedalsaadi"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}