{"id":406573,"date":"2025-01-22T03:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/the-method-for-deriving-the-elemental-mean\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T03:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:52:53","slug":"the-method-for-deriving-the-elemental-mean","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/the-method-for-deriving-the-elemental-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"The method for deriving the Elemental Mean."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;When the Equivalent Stress in shell structure analysis is set to Elemental Mean, setting the Position to Top\/Bottom results in values that are either zero or significantly smaller (compared to when set to Averaged).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even with through-thickness averaging, I believe that Equivalent Stress should prevent the stresses on the top and bottom from canceling each other out. Is the Equivalent Stress calculated using the averaged stresses, or is there a different method that I might not be aware of?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, when extracting averaged stress, why do the contours for the top and bottom surfaces appear differently when using Top and Bottom separately instead of the Top\/Bottom option?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-406573","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-mechanical","topic-tag-structural-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_topic_id":["406573"],"_bbp_subscription":["292741","490"],"_bbp_author_ip":["222.96.46.2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["406888"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["406888"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-01-23 22:53:37"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["292741","490"],"_btv_view_count":["1279"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"sdbrothernaver-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/406573","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\/406573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}