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Subject: Re: A Very Basic Question
Author: Xiao Gong
Date: 1999-01-11 11:47:00

Quick answer is: if your mesh is fine enough, there should be no difference
of nodal stress or element stress. Keep in mind that nodal stress is always
interpolated from element stress, so for all directly calculation purpose,
element stress is what in general be used. Hope this helps.

X. (Shawn) Gong, Ph.D.
Design Analyst
Sulzer Carbomedics Inc.
1300 East Anderson Lane
Austin, TX 78752
(Office) 512-435-3566
(FAX) 512-435-3700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hursha Narayan [SMTP:narayan@s...]
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 12:02 PM
> To: xansys@o...
> Subject: [xansys] A Very Basic Question

> From: Hursha Narayan

> Hello Everybody,

> Under what conditions should one use elemental stress as opposed to nodal
> stress. Is there any particular reason using elemental stress in fatigue
> calculations. Thanks in advance for your response.

> Regards,
> Hursha S Narayan
> Eaton Corp.


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