3.4. Summary

In this tutorial, you reinforced the lay-up of a sailboat's deck to eliminate critical failures. You have learned how to:

  • Use Selection Rules to define specific lay-up areas

  • Reuse Selection Rules as templates for a ply

  • Create a ply by adding data using Excel

  • Use the Mechanical application to:

    • Analyze failures using Failure Plots and Sampling Points

    • Use short iterations of analyzing and modifying the lay-up to eliminate critical failures

For more information on using the ACP application in the Ansys Workbench software, see Implementation in Workbench in the ACP User's Guide. For the ACP application's terms and concepts, see Guide for ACP Terminology in the ACP User's Guide.

For more information on composite postprocessing in the Mechanical application, see Composite Postprocessing in the Mechanical User's Guide.