Through Thickness Plot
Composite laminates are in general heterogeneous in the thickness direction. It is often desirable to plot the variation of a quantity in the through-thickness direction, at certain locations on the boundary.
To this end, you can use a Through Thickness plot in which any quantity can be plotted against laminate thickness. You can select one or more geometric points on the boundary, or optionally create cut point datasets. It is also possible to specify point coordinates directly.
The result quantity is plotted on the x-axis, and the thickness coordinate is plotted on the y-axis. An example of a through-thickness plot is shown in Figure 2-29.
Figure 2-29: Example of a Through Thickness plot, where the transverse shear stress is plotted at a particular point on a composite laminate with three layers ([0/90/0]).
In the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual: The Through Thickness plot.