Thin Solid Meshing

Thin solid meshing is useful for thin solid bodies where one element through the thickness is desired. This meshing also takes advantage of the Mechanical APDL application's SOLSH190 element or the LS-DYNA thick shell element .

  • It may be advantageous to use a Sizing control on the faces/body along with mapped Face Meshing controls to give a uniform mesh.

  • Virtual Topology may be necessary to satisfy the topological criterion for thin solid meshing.