I am doing a 2D structural analysis for a blade with the angular velocity as the load.
And about the points, I am defining the path by picking nodes on the model. But even if i define the path using many nodes, it is taking first two nodes for listing the results.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 #LEE KIM KHENG# wrote : >Dear Reddy,
>As regards membrane stress, you have not be specific about your >analysis and I am not able to comment much about it.
>I am wondering how you define path as you have mentioned abt >'point' in your reply. Normally, I would use define path>by >nodes. It seems that you have chosen define path>by location, of >which I have not attempted before.
>Hope that helps. >K.K. Lee >Nanyang Technological University >Singapore
> Thanks Lee for that reply, > But i have checked that for all elements we will get membrane > stress in the result listing of the path operations. > And about the points, even though we define a path by many >points, > the listing takes only first two nodes for the listing. > What can be done to this. > Does it take only two points, because what we are seeing is at >a > section?
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 #LEE KIM KHENG# wrote : > >Dear Reddy,
> >As regards first part, I am not sure why there is membrane > >stress. Could it be due to your element ?
> >As regards second part, you could select more nodes along >the > >path, rather than only two points. It is possible in ANSYS > >unless there are only two points along that path.. Play >with > >define path command.
> >Hope that helps. > >K.K. Lee > >Nanyang Technological University > >Singapore
> > I am doing the path operations and i am trying to >extract the > > stresses. But i did not understand the term membrane >stress > >along > > a path. > > And one more thing is to list these stresses ansys >considers > >only > > first two points. Is there any way more points can be >used to > >list > > the results.