{"id":403511,"date":"2025-01-04T19:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-extract-running-loads-and-moments-from-shell181-elements-in-workbench-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:11:57","slug":"how-to-extract-running-loads-and-moments-from-shell181-elements-in-workbench-2","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-extract-running-loads-and-moments-from-shell181-elements-in-workbench-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to extract running loads and moments from SHELL181 elements in workbench?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m doing a simple validation study of CLT (classical laminate theory). I made a spreadsheet tool and am confirming to see if FEM gives the same results for stresses and strains. I have a simple model of 4 elements and I&#8217;m having a hard time figuring out how to get the running load and moments output from Ansys for each element. In FEMAP\/NASTRAN it is very easy to output running loads,moments and stresses but Ansys seems a bit convoluted. I first tried placing a remote point and extracting the reaction forces at that point, but all showed 0 so that was not very useful. Then I tried making an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/93cUy7P.png\">APDL script<\/a> and that led to a whole host of confusion. The number of elements is way more than what I have in the model (I have 8 elements in my model, but the text file reports loads for 12 elements somehow???). Then I extracted stresses and regular forces and all of those happen to be the exact same. So something is pretty strange\/fishy here and I haven&#8217;t been able to find much help searching online for this so either I&#8217;m doing something wrong or there&#8217;s some way that I&#8217;m unaware of. I&#8217;d appreciate the help and while I can just do this in FEMAP, I want to learn how to do it in Ansys.&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/04-01-2025-1736017393-mceclip0.png\" width=\"691\" height=\"235\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-403511","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-acp-compositematerials-1","topic-tag-ansysworkbench-ansys-staticstructural","topic-tag-postprocessing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m doing a simple validation study of CLT (classical laminate theory). I made a spreadsheet tool and am confirming to see if FEM gives the same results for stresses and strains. 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