{"id":361035,"date":"2024-04-08T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/question-regarding-composite-analysis-and-custom-materials\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:45:04","slug":"question-regarding-composite-analysis-and-custom-materials","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/question-regarding-composite-analysis-and-custom-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Question Regarding Composite Analysis and Custom Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

While researching core materials with the aim of defining a custom Aramid Nomex Honeycomb Core to use for my analysis, I encountered a problem.<\/p>\n

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In my understanding the program defines the material based on a coordinate system. So as I was adding the properties of the material I decided that the z direction was going to be the “strong” one. But when I imported the model in the ACP system, and opened it using SpaceClaim, it had the coordinate system of the CAD program I was using and the model wasn’t oriented the way I wanted it to be.<\/p>\n

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My question is, should I define 3 identical materials but the “strong” direction be different it’s time for the three axis and use them accordingly or I’m misunderstanding how adding custom materials work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-361035","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-acp-compositematerials-1","topic-tag-compositematerials-1","topic-tag-acp","topic-tag-acp-ansys-2","topic-tag-acp-compositematerials-2","topic-tag-acp-pre","topic-tag-add-material","topic-tag-ansys-structural","topic-tag-composite-material","topic-tag-custom-materials-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t