Through Thickness
Use a Through Thickness () plot to display the variation of a layered shell quantity in its thickness direction at specified points. Add Color Expression and Filter subnodes as needed. Right-click a 1D Plot Group to add this plot type from More Plots submenu.
Go to Common Results Node Settings for links to information about these sections: Title, Coloring and Style, and Legend.
The Through Thickness plot requires the AC/DC Module, Composite Materials Module, Heat Transfer Module, or Structural Mechanics Module.
Data
From the Source list, choose Solution or Cut Point 3D dataset. In case of Solution dataset, specify the evaluation positions on a layered shell in Position and Selection sections.
Position
When Solution is selected as a Dataset, this section displays. Select Position: Selection (the default), or Point coordinates.
In case Selection option is chosen, select one or more geometric points from the Graphics window. Alternatively, select Point coordinates to specify the material coordinates of an array of points.
Selection
When Position is selected as a Selection, this section displays. Select Manual from the Selection list to choose geometry directly from the Graphics window. Select All to add the applicable geometry or any other predefined grouping.
X-Axis Data
The X-Axis Data section is same as that of Y-Axis Data section of a Line Graph.
Y-Axis Data
For Parametric Sweep studies, for each pair of outer solutions or inner solutions, one line is plotted on the graph. For example, if there are 10 outer solutions and each outer solution has five inner solutions, then 50 lines are drawn. The number of inner solutions can vary between outer solutions.
Select Thickness coordinate from the Parameter list to visualize along the through-thickness direction of a layered shell, or select Expression to change the through-thickness coordinate expression. If Thickness coordinate is selected, you can choose an appropriate length unit from the Unit list. If Expression is selected, go to Expressions and Predefined Quantities.
Under Interface positions, choose an option from the Show interface positions list to enable display of horizontal lines to indicate the positions of the interfaces between layers:
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With the default option, None, no interface positions are displayed.
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Choose All interfaces to display horizontal lines to indicate the positions of all interfaces between layers.
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Choose Interfaces between layered materials to display horizontal lines to indicate the positions of interfaces between layered materials only.
Coloring and Style
For other settings, see Common Results Node Settings.
Under Interface positions, the following settings are available for the line style and color of the horizontal lines representing the interface positions:
From the Line list, choose a line style: Solid, Dotted (the default), Dashed, or Dashed-dot.
From the Color list, choose one of the predefined colors (default: Magenta), or choose Custom to define a custom color using the color palette that appears.
Quality
The Quality section in the through thickness plot is similar to the one in a Line Graph. The only difference is in the Smoothing, which can only be turned off (the default) or on compared to the Line Graph, in which you get more options.