Combining two field output requests 1

[Twaj]

Right, I have the field output of S11, and the field output of S22, unfortunately, I want the radial field output, which is a combination of the two.

Is there anyway to pythagoras up S11 and S22 to give me my desired field output?

Literally, I just want to be able to go to the values of S11 & S22

( (S11)**2 + (S22)**2) ) **0.5

(Also, a question which I will probably make a new thread for, but if anyone knows the answer to, how can I synchronise a plot and a abaqus animation, such that the field output of say, Force and Displacement, are plotted in real time with the abaqus animation as they occur?)

Many thanks for all help,

Twaj

 

[bkal]

Stresses (assuming tha S11 and S22 are stresses) are not forces, you are dealing with a stress tensor so simple pythagoras would not work. Any book on strength of materials can tell you how to transform stresses to a different angle / plane.

 

[akabarten]

Hello Twaj,

Is there anyway to pythagoras up S11 and S22 to give me my desired field output?

I think function you are looking for is described here:
Abaqus/CAE User's Manual, 42.7 Creating new field output

synchronize a plot and a abaqus animation

Make two viewports, one with animation, one with graph.
Options -> Animation -> Viewports -> select viewports you want to synchronize.

Regards,
Bartosz

 

[Twaj]

That's actually brilliant. Thank you very much akabarten

 

[csk62]

If you want S11 (stress in radial direction for Cyl. CSYS) and you have a user-defined coorindate system for cylindrical coords, you can click on results->options->transformation->user_specified to transform the default (x,y,z) display for field output to (radial,tangential,axial).