Composite design optimization

"Moeen Saeed [email protected] [Abaqus]" <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Feb 2019 10:51:46 +0000
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Hi,

I would like to know if its possible to do composite design optimization in Abaqus? like what Optistruct in Altair software can do?

I know that in Altair Optistruct you can optimize composite ply shapes, thickness and shuffling of stacking sequence.

Is it possible to do such optimization in Abaqus or using Tosca?

Regards
Moeen