Stress at nodes/ element corners
Stress at nodes/ element corners
(OP)
Good day all, having a little trouble here. I want to view the stress at some nodes. Currently I can select an element and the stress values at each of the elements corners is listed but working out which corner is which is quite troublesome. When I select a node it only gives me the deformation. So at the moment I'm checking every element around a node and seeing which value stays the same to work out which is the corner I'm interested in. Surely there is an easier way of doing this, I'm trying to do stress linearisation and it's a bit labourious this way.
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance





RE: Stress at nodes/ element corners
of course the easy (= lazy ?) way is to integorate the element, get the node with the stress you're interested in, then go to "window/show entities" to see where the node is.
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
RE: Stress at nodes/ element corners
Another thing I don't quite understand is if, as is the case here, the solver outputs corner data then why is it possible to uncheck the box 'Use corner data'? In what situation would you want to do this? I've spent hours wondering why my stresses were lower than expected only to discover it's because a check box had got unticked at some point in the past.
RE: Stress at nodes/ element corners