postprocessing 1

[moinsen]

Hi everyone,
i need some help. I use Abaqus 6.3.1 and want to know something about postprocessing.
After analyzing my solid model using the dynamic,explicit option I want to find out in which section is the maximum stress (Mises).
Of course there are these wonderful colors that indicate the particular point. I know that.
But are there any options to point out the specific element with the highest stress? Which settings do I have to make?
Thanks for your help.

Moinsen

 

[corus]

Possibly the easiest way is to go to contour options in Viewer and alter the limits so that the minimum is just below the maximum. Everything will appear black except for the node that has the highest stress. Alternatively you could print out the results in the dat file using *El print. At the end it will say which was the maximum and minimum. In Viewer you can then choose that element as a set and highlight it.

corus

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[DickButkus]

Nice tip corus - I can see you've been using ABAQUS for quite a while. Only the old timers seem to read the .dat and .msg files anymore There's a lot of good stuff there that hasn't translated to /CAE and /Viewer yet.

Don't forget the probe. Hit the query button (blue i with a circle around it) and select "Probe Values". This will instantly give you all the integration point values wherever your cursor happens to be.

 

[moinsen]

Thank you very much for your help. You really helped me, now work can go on.

greetings moinsen