Creating a general shell stiffness section

From the main menu bar, select SectionCreate.

A Create Section dialog box appears.

Tip: You can also click Create in the Section Manager or select the create section tool in the Property module toolbox.

Enter a section name. For more information on naming objects, see Using basic dialog box components.

Select Shell as the section Category and General shell stiffness as the section Type, and click Continue.

The general shell stiffness section editor appears.

On the Stiffness tabbed page, enter the symmetric half of the shell stiffness matrix in the data table. The first row contains matrix entries $D_{11}$ through $D_{16}$, the second row contains matrix entries $D_{22}$ through $D_{26}$, and so on; the last row contains matrix entry $D_{66}$. See Entering tabular data, for more information.