How can I get stress values at the centerpoint of an element?

- December 9, 2021 at 3:34 pm
  
  LCP
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  Hello,
  I am running a model with one element, and giving it anisotropic, nonlinear behaviour.
  In order to check my results, I need the stress values in the centerpoint of this element.
  How do I do this?
  
  Kind regards,
- December 9, 2021 at 6:33 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  What element type have you used?
- December 10, 2021 at 10:08 am
  
  LCP
  Subscriber
  
  I have used element type SOLID185, meaning that there's 8 nodes.
- December 10, 2021 at 10:05 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  If you are using Mechanical to view results, you would set the Display Option to Elemental Mean.
  Contrast that with the default result display which is set to Averaged, though in the image below, I changed the Average Across Bodies to Yes since a solid of uniform material was sliced into blocks then Shared to make a hex mesh.
- December 13, 2021 at 9:09 am
  
  LCP
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you for the response! Is there also a command for APDL usage?
- December 13, 2021 at 1:02 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  I don't know APDL, but it would be a post-processing command. Take a look in the Ansys Help system.
- October 11, 2023 at 8:45 am
  
  Salem Obaid
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  Averaged,--> does that mean, I would get one result of one integration point ?