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STRAIN OUTPUT

Thread starter StressMan2506
Start date Oct 23, 2008

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Oct 23, 2008

StressMan2506

Structural

I am a stress engineer needing to interpret some Nastran output pertaining to quad elements, a small extract from which I have inserted below.

ELEMENT STRAIN
ID. CURVATURE NORMAL-X
0 206292 0.0 3.392523E-04
-1.000000E+00 -1.983165E-05

What are 0.0 & -1.000000E+00 under "STRAIN CURVATURE"? Do they refer to the outer surfaces, or middle & one outer surface or what?

Thanks in anticipation.