{"id":217768,"date":"2022-07-05T17:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/calculate-surface-area\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:49:39","slug":"calculate-surface-area","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/calculate-surface-area\/","title":{"rendered":"calculate surface area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I need to calculate the are of a specific surface which varies due to a load. The geometry is 3D. I have tried with APDL command but I only managed to extract volume of the underlying elements rather than surface area. I was relatively successfull on planar structure meshed with shell elements. I have tried it on a simple 1mm3 cube undergoing 1% strain but no luck. Any idea on how to do it?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/05-07-2022-1657043204-mceclip0.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-217768","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-3d-geomertry","topic-tag-apdl-commands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["189442","200"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.218.93.53"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1742"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["217768"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","189442"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["217872"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["217872"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-07-06 14:56:43"]},"test":"alessandroborghi"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/217768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/217768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}