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“Maximum Principal Stress” and “S1”

    • January 10, 2025 at 6:52 pm
      zachary.brown
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      In one of my static structural simulations, I noticed the user defined result of "S1" is giving different values than selcting the "Maximum Principal Stress" result option. It's not different by a large margin, but the "S1" result is giving me ~ 2% larger stress values. If anyone can shed light on the differences in how these metrics are claculated, I'd greatly appreciate it. 

    • January 10, 2025 at 6:59 pm
      zachary.brown
      Subscriber

      Realizing I had a slightly different geometry selected for one result vs the other. They are identical once corrected.

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