Viewing Factor of Safety Plot

  1. In the Simulation study tree, right-click the Results folder and select Define Factor of Safety Plot .
  2. In the PropertyManager, under Composite Options, select Tsai-Wu Criterion for Failure criteria for composites.
  3. Click .
  4. Under Composite Options select Worst-case across all plies and click PM_OK.gif.
    The FOS plot is displayed. The plot is displayed for Number Format set to floating and No of Decimals set to 2.

    The plot indicates that the model will fail at the intersecting regions of the T- joint (with FOS less than 1).

    Applying the other two failure criteria give very similar results for the model.