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How to plot shear stress in beam4 element

Thread starter thirumalai
Start date Sep 30, 2003

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Sep 30, 2003

thirumalai

Mechanical

I am applying a torue at the end of a shaft. I am using beam4 element in ANSYS. I have tried for plotting shear stress in "element table" option but i couldnt get that. Is there any way to plot the twisting shear stress in a line beam4 element? thanks.