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Armin
Ansys Employee

No worries, I just responded to your other post about plastic deformation.
Stress is calculated at the integration points and then extrapolated to the nodes. What you see reported in Mechanical is the averaged values of stress at each node. For a detailed discussion on this topic, please see the (long) thread below: https://innovationspace.ansys.com/forum/forums/topic/integration-point-results-option-in-equivalent-stress/