Reply To: Radial displacement, hoop and meridional stress of dome

[peteroznewman]

If you only need the output of a single node, create a rectangular coordinate system and orient the X axis to be along the radial direction. Then you can probe the directional deformation of that one node along the X axis of that coordinate system. In Ansys, they use the term Displacement for boundary conditions which means holding nodes with 0 displacement or requiring them to move along a specific vector.  The term Deformation is for the vector from the initial coordinates of the node to the deformed coordinates of the node that was calculated in the solution.

To plot all the nodes, you would need some APDL code, but I am not good at writing that code. I would have to build myself a small model and experiment to advise you further. Maybe someone else will comment.