Details of integration points

[ankushaggarwal2]

If somebody can tell me how to get the locations at the integration points of an element and stress and strain at each of them (inside a perticular element not the closest to a node as given in the manual), it will be very helpful.

Thank you very much.

 

[cbrn]

Hi,
1- the locations of the integration points are known once the nodal locations are known and also of course the element formulation. This info I think you can find in the Theory Manual.
2- This is a thing you can ask directly to ANSYS (plot/list stresses at integration points directly transfered to the nodes), but I never tried to "*GET" this with the APDL command.

Regards

 

[ankushaggarwal2]

Thanks for the information. In Ansys theory manual, the location of integration points is given in some dimensionless form and in the element coordinates. If I want to know the location in global coordinates, do I have to do the calculations myself?

 

[cbrn]

Hi,
yes, I believe so. The dimensionless form should be the most useful, I think, but it depends how you prefer to handle coordinates' matrices...

Regards