How can you use surface elements to get the surface strain data?

- October 4, 2017 at 12:20 pm
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  Is it possible to use surface elements to get the surface strain data?
- October 17, 2017 at 9:17 am
  
  cbhavsar
  Ansys Employee
  
  The procedure is as follows: - Generate the 3D solid Mesh - Using esurf command, create surface 281 elements on 3D solid elements - solve your model - Calculate surface stresses/ strains as required in output