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Exportin Strains from femap

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martin555

Aerospace
Nov 30, 2018
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Hi

I am currently running a FEMAP model and exporting the forces of a shell model and running a CLT hand calculations to get the strains.
I want to compare these strains to the strains in FEMAP.
Do I compare them to the normal X and Y strains in FEMAP ?
 
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