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*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  Abaqus/CAE  

Type: Model data

Level: Part,  Part instance  

Abaqus/CAE: Property module

References:

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 Guide, for the syntax of such file names. If this parameter is omitted, it is assumed that the data follow the keyword line.

Data lines when the GENERATE parameter is omitted: 

First line:

  1. Node set label or node number.

  2. Thickness.

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define the variation in shell or membrane thickness.

Data lines when the GENERATE parameter is included: 

First line:

  1. Node number or node set label that defines the first bound for the generate operation.

  2. Node number or node set label that defines the second bound for the generate operation.

  3. Number of intervals between the bounding nodes or node sets.

  4. Increment in node numbers from the first bounding node or node set.

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define the variation in thickness.