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Thermal Stress Analysis in Plain Strain

Thread starter asad2012
Start date Mar 10, 2012

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Mar 10, 2012

asad2012

Structural

I am trying to perform a very simple 2D (plain strain) thermal stress analysis. I tried to create a simple rectangle and applied a uniform temperature of 100 Fahrenheit degrees. Since there is no temperature gradient, I should not have any stresses in s11 and s22 directions. However, the model shows a large stress in those directions. The model input text file is attached. Is there a bug in SAP or I am missing something?