Calculate area of interest in Patran
Calculate area of interest in Patran
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hi, i need to calculate the area that has a certain color or higher in a fringe plot. for example the area of my model whose stress is beyond the yield tensile stress. is there an utility in patran which can do that?, and in another post processing program? or any other method you can think of?
thanks a lot
thanks a lot





RE: Calculate area of interest in Patran
Suppose I have a mesh and I wish to create a surface to cover the yielded area. I create two curves (Curve 1 and Curve 2), each curve is created by two nodes (Create>Curve>Point). I then create a surface using the curve method (Create>Surface>Curve). Then I use "Show>Surface>Attributes" and select the surface I just made to get the area of this surface. It is not exact, but then again no FEA is.
RE: Calculate area of interest in Patran
RE: Calculate area of interest in Patran
RE: Calculate area of interest in Patran
then go to Tools>List>Create and make a list of element with fringe value over the threshold desired.
Then you make a group with the list of elements and you can calculate the area of element in the group with utilities>elements>Area for selected elements
RE: Calculate area of interest in Patran