This option enables transferring orientation data from the SMC modeling software 3DTimon for short and long fiber reinforced composites onto shell meshes for further structural analysis. This option is available for solid source meshes only.

Several options are available to handle short fiber reinforced composite materials with the LS-DYNA application. The Envyo application supports *MAT_ANISOTROPIC_ELASTIC_PLASTIC (*MAT_157) and output of *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE cards for the use of other arbitrary orthotropic material models within the LS-DYNA application. Support for *MAT_4A_MICROMEC (*MAT_215) is also available.

For more information about the handling of short fiber reinforced materials with *MAT_157, see [11], [16], [15], [10]. For more details on *MAT_215, see [21].