WB, probe, force & moment reactions usefull?

[JohnyGluebag]

I am checking the strength of a new structure that has some fixed boundary conditions. The client wants me to pass on the reactions at these boundary conditions, so they can apply to there existing structure. Basically to see what my structure is doing to theres.

In Simulation I go to probe->force & moment reactions. This gives me:

Fx, Fy, Fz, Mx, My, Mz reactions at the centroid of the area (solid shell used), with respect to certain coordinate system, global in this case. The client knows the interface between the two stuctures, they take these loads and apply to there structure, its as if my structure was already in there model...right?

I was all happy that this was working so well until another engineer at my company says that these reactions are "theoretical and wrong, they are not the true reactions at the boundary condition". He then askes me to list the nodal reactions for each node at the boundary condtions, and then generate a load profile to give to the client.

Now, there is allot of frickin nodes there and time is money as they say. But now I have doubts about these force and moment probes; and now have to get a test model going to prove to myself what is actually going on. I am lazy, but no so lazy to pass on incorrect data.

Has anyone ever been down this road before? The help file is not doing it for me.

Regards,



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JohnyGluebag