{"id":34092,"date":"2019-03-21T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-get-cavity-volume-in-structural\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T00:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:31:04","slug":"how-to-get-cavity-volume-in-structural","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-get-cavity-volume-in-structural\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get cavity volume in structural?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing a simulation where a hollow object is compressed from external pressure.&nbsp; I want to find out how much the volume inside has changed, but there appears to be no way to do this in mechanical.&nbsp; In Fluent, for example, I would simply insert a plane and the look at the area of the plane to get an idea, since the object is axis symmetric.&nbsp; But there is no way to insert a plane through the object in mechanical.&nbsp; I thought perhaps I could insert two section planes very close to each other to look at the cross sectional area in between them and then use an image processor to get the area change, but the section planes do not work like this when showing total deformation.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to get the volume change of the internal cavity after compression?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-34092","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["6264"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["1263"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["34092"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["157493","159194","160648","162192"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["9"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["81587"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["81587"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-03-28 15:49:29"]},"test":"ansysuser"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34092","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\/34092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}