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- From: rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo)
- Subject: Re: Nodal force calculations in a FE analysis
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.173827.11044@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <40490@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:38:27 GMT
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- In article <40490@ogicse.ogi.edu> natarsu@mse.ogi.edu (N. Sukumar) writes:
- >
- > Hi! I hope the solution to what follows turns
- >out to be simple.
- >
- > I am interested in computing the nodal forces
- >(not the reactions !) at certain nodal points in my
- >FE analysis; am performing a structural analysis (static)
- >with quadratic isoparametric elements. As far as I
- >know, the system (ANSYS) does not give me the nodal
- >values. Is there a simple way (via calculations) or
- >by a re-analysis (submodel ?) to accomplish the above
- >task.
- >
- > I was contemplating on starting from 1st
- >principles: assume a quadratic variation over
- >the element edge for the stresses, and then use
- >the basic definitions of the nodal forces in
- >terms of the elemental shape functions and stresses
- >to set-up a simultaneous eqn. relating the coefficients
- >in the stress-expansion and the nodal forces. Since I know
- >the coefficients (the nodal stresses are known), I
- >can compute the unknown forces. Is this OK ? Anyway,
- >I reckon I'm off on a tangent ...... I'm definitely
- >missing something !
- >
- > Any help/pointers will be appreciated.
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >-suku.
- >--
- >N. Sukumar Home Phone: (503)-690-3097
- >Department of MS&E Work " : (503)-690-1121 (X7451)
- >Oregon Graduate Institute ****** BLAZERS IN 1993 ******
-
-
- ANSYS does provide nodal forces, and much more.
-
- ANSYS release 4.4A+ has the following commands for that purpose:
-
- prefor - Prints element nodal forces and moment for
- the selected elements.
-
- fsum - sums the element forces at a node.
-
- ANSYS release 5.0 adds the following command:
-
- prnld - prints summed element nodal loads (forces, moments, ...)
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