13.5 Customizing element orientation for composite output

Products: Abaqus/CAE Abaqus/Viewer

Benefits: You can now display element output from composite sections using the material orientation of the entire composite layup rather than the material orientation of one of its individual plies. You can also transform field output in your results to display material orientation in the direction of the elements on the individual plies. These enhancements provide more flexibility for analyzing results that include composite sections.

Description: Abaqus/CAE now provides two enhancements for display of element output from composite sections in an output database:

You can now customize the display of composite sections in your results so that Abaqus/CAE displays the data by using a single material orientation for the entire composite layup rather than the material orientation on each ply.
You can now transform tensor and vector fields in your results into the layup orientation defined in the composite section definition.

Both enhancements require that output from the SORIENT field output variable be present in the output database.

Abaqus/CAE Usage:

Visualization module:
    ResultOptions: Transformation tabbed page: Layup orientation
    OptionsMaterial Orientation: Orientation (composites only): Ply or Layup

References:

Abaqus/CAE User's Guide