u/Complex_Flatworm_613

I am working on timber-concrete composites which fail in either shear or compression. I have gone through the DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY for my materials. I can see the failure using the history variables, but the damage mode is still not clear as if it is shear or compression.

I want to learn more about it, because I think that I am unable to interpret the results of history variables.

Can someone suggest any informative source about the history variables in LS-Dyna other than the LS-Dyna manuals and dynasupport site?

I need to generate elements in the space between two top sections. I want to hide the smaller top section, rather hiding whole part, how can I do this?

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