Solidworks Simulation- Stress Linerization - Stress intensity plot interpretation

[HansonBoye]

Hi,

Im new to FEA..im trying to do a stress linearization for a pressure vessel body using solidworks simulation.
As you can see in the picture attached pic 1 shows the stress points and calculated membrane + bending stress between these two points. Which is around
50000 psi for von mises and stress intensity.
But when i try to plot using the plot button under the Report Options section below... the graph doesn't show up these values (See pic 2)
how to get these values on the graph or may be im interpreting it wrongly. Can anybody help how to get the values right on graph plot.. is there any options that i need to change? Thank you very much in advance.

pic 1:

pic 2:

Thanks,
Hanson

 

[MGZmechanical]

Hi, two points:
- before doing an stress linearization be sure the results are accurate enough in that area. See

https://pveng.com/home/fea-stress-analysis/asme-viii-2-permissible-cycle-life/

(take a look at the whole website, it is worth it).

- You already have von Mises stress on the critical points. The stress graph plots are for stress components Sx, sy, Sz, txy, txz, tyz (you perform linearization on stress components). The von Mises is just a combination of them so if you want it you can export data to an Excel file and calculate it.

Regards,