ABAQUS Volume II: I–Z - Manual (Page 203)

*NODAL THICKNESS
14.7 *NODAL THICKNESS: Define shell or membrane thickness at nodes.
This option is used to define variable shell or membrane thicknesses on a nodal basis. The thickness
data defined with this option will be ignored unless the NODAL THICKNESS parameter is included on
either the *SHELL GENERAL SECTION or the *SHELL SECTION options for shell elements or on the
*MEMBRANE SECTION option for membrane elements.
Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit
Type: Model data
Level: Part, Part instance
References:
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“Nodal thicknesses,” Section 2.1.3 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
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“Membrane elements,” Section 23.1.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
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“Using a shell section integrated during the analysis to define the section behavior,” Section 23.6.5 of
the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
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“Using a general shell section to define the section behavior,” Section 23.6.6 of the ABAQUS Analysis
User’s Manual
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“Line spring elements for modeling part-through cracks in shells,” Section 26.10.1 of the
ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
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*MEMBRANE SECTION
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*SHELL GENERAL SECTION
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*SHELL SECTION
Optional parameters:
GENERATE
Include this parameter to interpolate the thickness between two bounding nodes or node sets. The
thickness for the bounding nodes or node sets must have been defined earlier. If the node sets do
not have the same number of nodes, the extra nodes in the longer set are ignored.
INPUT
Set this parameter equal to the name of the alternate input file containing the data lines for this
option. See “Input syntax rules,” Section 1.2.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual, for the
syntax of such file names. If this parameter is omitted, it is assumed that the data follow the keyword
line.
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