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- From: natarsu@mse.ogi.edu (N. Sukumar)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
- Subject: Problem solved (Re: Nodal force calculations in a FE analysis)
- Message-ID: <40524@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 00:46:35 GMT
- Sender: news@ogicse.ogi.edu
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Material Science & Engineering
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- In article <cbfsb.1992Jul24.173827.11044>,
- rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo) writes :-
-
- > In article <40490@ogicse.ogi.edu> natarsu@mse.ogi.edu
- > (N. Sukumar) writes:
- >
- > > 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
- > > ...[rest deleted]
- > >Thanks in advance.
- > >-suku.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Sorry for the delay in posting ... the problem
- is solved ! I was aware of the above "features" on
- ANSYS. All it took was to select the node of interest
- along with the elements attached to it (above the plane
- of interest). A "spoint,node #" followed by a
- "fsum" gave me the required forces acting on the node
- from the structure below it !
-
- Just mentioned the above in case someone else
- too has a need to compute nodal forces sometime ....
-
- Thanks to all those who posted and also to
- those who sent email msgs. to me directly.
-
- > ANSYS release 5.0 adds the following command:
- > prnld - prints summed element nodal loads (forces,
- > moments, ...)
- > Anthony R. Rizzo, P.E.
-
- -suku.
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