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/prep7 !Call the Preprocessor

et,matid,181 !Specify the element type, shell 181
keyopt,matid,3,2 !Use full integration
mpdel,all,matid !Delete all previously assigned material properties
tbdel,all,matid !Delete all previouly assigned tabular data

MP,EX,2,101E9 !Define Young's Modulus: X Direction
MP,EY,2,101E9 !Define Young's Moduls: Y Direction
MP,EZ,2,101E9 !Define Young's Modulus: Z Direction

MP,PRXY,2,0.3 !Define Major Poisson's ratio XY
MP,PRYZ,2,0.3 !Define Major Poisson's ratio YZ
MP,PRXZ,2,0.3 !Define Majoy Major Poisson's ration XZ

Setup Varying Thickness function

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Press ENTER. Then in the Function Editor window, go to File > Save. Change the Save as type to All Files, and name the file vth.txt. Once you save, you may close ANSYS APDL. Now, open the text file you just created. We need to name the function. In the text file, use Replace to replace all instances of _FNCNAME to {{

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