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Hello, I have to do stress analysis on a protection window at work but I am getting errors when meshing in ANSYS because of the element type I am choosing. The window is of course is a solid and is a wide, thin sheet. What Element Type should I use? Also, do I need to create nodes or not...

Thank you sardonicus. For the area of the water jet my boss says to just make an assumption like 1in^2. Does anybody know how to do bullet impact analysis? In other words, does anybody know how to do stress analysis to see if a material will fail under the impact of a bullet? I see the initial...

Thank you very much for your help...I am already looking into Roarks methods :) I would love to have more info. though about how to consider the initial impact effect...anyone?

Hello, I need help with a simple stress analysis. I have a 25 in x 25 in sheet of Lexan that's 0.125 in thick and is constrained from all sides (the Lexan is used a protective shield). I want to know if a small water jet from a pressure vessel at 7000 psi would crack./break that sheet of...