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  3. If I *VGET stress values in APDL, the results at midside nodes are zero; however, if I export stress values in Workbench Mechanical, the results at the midside nodes are nonzero. Why?

If I *VGET stress values in APDL, the results at midside nodes are zero; however, if I export stress values in Workbench Mechanical, the results at the midside nodes are nonzero. Why?

Tagged: 12, apdl, Macros/Scripting/UPF, Mechanical APDL (f. ANSYS), structural-mechanics
    • January 25, 2023 at 7:34 am
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      ANSYS does not store results for midside nodes on the RST file; these values are calculated on the fly as the average of the corner nodes. The difference in this case is that APDL *VGET returns the result from the RST, whereas WB returns the averaged value.

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