{"id":158079,"date":"2022-06-06T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-can-i-retrieve-maximum-membrane-bending-and-total-stress-from-a-linearized-stress-plot-in-mechanical-apdl\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:37","slug":"how-can-i-retrieve-maximum-membrane-bending-and-total-stress-from-a-linearized-stress-plot-in-mechanical-apdl","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-can-i-retrieve-maximum-membrane-bending-and-total-stress-from-a-linearized-stress-plot-in-mechanical-apdl\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I retrieve maximum membrane, bending and total stress from a linearized stress plot in Mechanical APDL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the linearized stresses are plotted through PLSECT command :<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Create an array to store values :<br \/>*dim,test_smb,array,3,3<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Calculate the linearized stresses through PRSECT :<br \/>prsect<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Use *GET function to store inside, center, and outside values for membrane, bending, and total stress :<br \/>*get,test_smb(1,1),section,membrane,inside,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(2,1),section,membrane,center,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(3,1),section,membrane,outside,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(1,2),section,bending,inside,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(2,2),section,bending,center,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(3,2),section,bending,outside,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(1,3),section,total,inside,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(2,3),section,total,center,s,eqv<br \/>*get,test_smb(3,3),section,total,outside,s,eqv<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Use *VSCFUN to get maximum value for membrane, bending, and total stress :<br \/>*vscfun,memb_max,max,test_smb(1,1)<br \/>*vscfun,bend_max,max,test_smb(1,2)<br \/>*vscfun,bend_max,max,test_smb(1,3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-158079","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-apdl","topic-tag-bending-stress","topic-tag-membrane-stress","topic-tag-total-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27795"],"_btv_view_count":["3553"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}