Reaction moments

[hiwiansys]

Hello All,

I would like to get the reaction moments at the nodes as an output. The problem is my nodes does not have rotational degrees of freedom. Could anyone please suggest me as to how can I get the reaction moments at these nodes?

Thank you in advance.

Anjali

 

[johnhors]

Nodes on solid elements only have translational degrees of freedom and thus can only react forces and not moments.

However a group of nodes can react moments as a whole. Using the node coordinates and their reactions it is a trivial task to determine the sum of reaction forces and moments acting about any chosen axes system.