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[Sebastien ARRIVET]

Hello,

I'm trying to post process a model mostly built around SHELL181.

I'm looking for the membrane stresses, bending stresses and peak stresses.

I understand that those output can be found under the "SMISC" item, number 34 through 42. 

I tried to se the ETABLE command: ETABLE, SM11,SMISC,34

But once the data sorted that way, I've no idea how to access it. I'm looking for either a 3D plot of the result (PLNSOL style), or a .csv output so I can find the max, it's localisation, etc.

Do you have any idea of how to do such a thing ?

Thanks in advance,

Sebastien

[Govindan Nagappan]

 

 

Hi Sebastien,

 

You can use PLETAB,sm11 for contour plot if the table sm11

You can use PRETAB command to print the values

You can also use *VWRITE command to write the data to a text file. use *cfopen to open a text file, then *vwrite to write the data and then *cfclos to close the text file

 

 

[Sebastien ARRIVET]

 

Thanks for your answer ! I just tried the PLETAB command following your input, turns out the output sm11 isn’t stored. I though OUTRES,ALL,ALL would cover it all, but looks like it’s not. I’ll try to investigate that. The element guide said it was automatic in the .rst file (there is a Y in the R colonne) so I though the outres would be enough

 

[Sebastien ARRIVET]

Finaly understood how to use PLETAB,sm11 in combinaison with ETABLE, and it works ! Thank you so much for your time, and have a nice day !

Sebastien