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danielshaw
Ansys Employee

Most FE codes report nodal stresses as the fundamental stress result.  You might be able to obtain the element centroidal stress, but it is not commonly used for design decisions.  Thus, DesignLife uses nodal stress to calculate the fatigue damage.