{"id":39968,"date":"2020-01-06T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-find-equivalent-thermal-strain\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:20:39","slug":"how-to-find-equivalent-thermal-strain","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-find-equivalent-thermal-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find equivalent thermal strain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am calculating thermal-elastic-viscoplastic strains in a solidifying material.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thermal strain was calculated using the isotropic secant coefficient of thermal expansion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I extracted the strain values using equivalent elastic strain, equivalent plastic strain, equivalent total strain and thermal strain.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I observed that,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Equivalent Total Strain = Equivalent Elastic Strain + Equivalent Plastic Strain.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thermal strain was not included in the Equivalent total strain because the results of thermal strain were based on orientation (X, Y and Z<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>axis) whereas elastic and plastic are in equivalent form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/b06dc52a-02be-4180-a5b4-aac600a26f6f\/8d7bbb17-ad34-4dd2-81b0-ab3a00ec25e6_screenshot-(1).jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the manual, it is mentioned that an equivalent thermal strain can be calculated using Von-Mises equation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/b06dc52a-02be-4180-a5b4-aac600a26f6f\/3c44c078-9246-4085-a9a9-ab3a00e96c5c_capture.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Is there any way to calculate the Equivalent thermal strain? Why only thermal strain was like that and the rest of all are in equivalent form?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If I understand the concept incorrectly, please correct me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-39968","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["12147"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["2591"],"_bbp_subscription":["242851"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["39968"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","168409"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["102855"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["102855"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-01-19 11:09:01"]},"test":"jayakrishna"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/39968","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\/39968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}