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This tutorial guides the user to complete VM 82 from the Verification Manual for The Mechanical APDL Application using shell elements in ANSYS Workbench. Consider a square cross ply laminate plate that is supported at its edges and subjected to a uniform pressure as shown in the image below.


The laminate plate is made out of four layers as can be seen in the following illustration.
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Note that the orientations are either 0 or 90 degrees.

The length of the sides of the square are 10 meters, the thickness of each layer is 0.025m and the total thickness of the plate is 0.1m.

Go to Step 1: Pre-Analysis & Start-Up

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