Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
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Dear All,
I am modelling an half plate symmetry and I want to know the reaction forces in the centre of this plate. However I can not find them because are all zero. Is there any possibility to find the reaction forces between the elements in a plate?
If I a quarter of the plate then I will have my reaction forces in the crack propagation line(see the attachment) but in my case I will need to model only half plate.
Please let ma know if you can give me any support in this,
Many thanks,
Cranaero09
I am modelling an half plate symmetry and I want to know the reaction forces in the centre of this plate. However I can not find them because are all zero. Is there any possibility to find the reaction forces between the elements in a plate?
If I a quarter of the plate then I will have my reaction forces in the crack propagation line(see the attachment) but in my case I will need to model only half plate.
Please let ma know if you can give me any support in this,
Many thanks,
Cranaero09





RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
Thanks
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
The model, incidentally, was unable to load on my pc after the conversion to 6.8-1.
corus
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
thanks for the advice but I still can not get the forces at the nodes. I create a group of nodes but I can not see the nodal forces. How is it called the variables for the nodal fore in ABAQUS? I send you the input file this time. Hope it will work. The version of my ABAQUS is 6.7.
Thanks for replying,
cranaero09
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
Why such a fine mesh in the middle of the model when nothing happens there?
corus
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
I have checked the nodal forces NFORC1 and NFORC2 but the value are still zero. The mesh in the middle is very fine because I am going to propagate a crack in there.
Thanks again.
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
corus
RE: Reaction forces in the middle of a plate
I have put in the file attached the nodal forces but NFORC2 are still zero in the middle of the plate. You can check for the example the node 5 or 208 and 209 which are on the centre and the value are zero. Is there something that I am doing wrong? how did you get to the values 42?
Thanks again