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Subject: Re: Nodal Averaging Wishes
Author: David Gross
Date: 1998-12-31 13:49:00

Thanks to Scott Zemitis for pointing out the AVRES command, which can be
set to only average within MAT's, REAL's, or both. This goes a long way
toward what I'm talking about.

>From: David Gross

>Dear xansys,

>Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but I would love if the
>default behavior of ANSYS was not to nodal stress average in situations
>where it is not appropriate. These situations include: differences in
>shell element thickness, differences in modulus, differences in thermal
>expansion strain, differences in EKILL status between adjacent elements.

>Has this issue been dealt with in some fashion in recent or upcoming
>Revisions?

>Happy New Year to All,

>David Gross
>Dominion Engineering, Inc.

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