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Problem Description
Stresses and strains are calculated at integration points and are extrapolated or copied to surface nodes, which reduces their accuracy. Surface solution is critical for some post-analysis calculation, e.g., fatigue life assessment. There is an option to output surface solution for certain legacy solid elements (// Feature Archive // I. Legacy Features // 5. Surface Solution) with limitations: Legacy types are not used by default in Workbench Mechanical; It cannot be used with nonlinear material models, nor large-strain effects, either. To address the above issues, one can use currenttechnology shell elements stress/strain evaluation only option to obtain accurate stresses & strains on surfaces.
2 2011 ANSYS, Inc. February 21, 2013
Solution
Use APDL command objects with ESURF to overlay a shell skin on selected solid face(s) using Named Selections; then, use ETABLE to collect stress/strain quantities on the shell skin. The procedure can be applied to linear or quadratic solid elements with quad or triangular surface mesh. It can be used with nonlinear materials and large deflection. The example also demonstrates how to: obtain element areas of the selected face; pass geometry/solution quantities to user-defined arrays; and calculate area-weighted average of stress over the selected face.
One section from the top surface of the beam is selected and named area in the Named Selections.
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4. Results
Note that the result MY_S_AVG is returned automatically into the Details view, due to its prefix my_. The created Shells are not available in Mechanical but can be processed and visualized using commands such as PLESOL.