{"id":160259,"date":"2022-09-26T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-difference-between-reaction-force-and-reaction-resultant-in-structural-physics\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T06:33:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:33:41","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-reaction-force-and-reaction-resultant-in-structural-physics","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-difference-between-reaction-force-and-reaction-resultant-in-structural-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between Reaction Force and Reaction Resultant in structural physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"topic__title\" class=\"topic__title\"  id=\"WHAT-IS-THE-DIFFERENCE-BETWEEN-REACTION-FORCE-AND-REACTION-RESULTANT-IN-STRUCTURAL-PHYSICS\">What is the\u00a0difference between Reaction Force and Reaction Resultant in structural physics?<\/h1>\n<p>In the results section, there are two different features provided in Discovery (Refine and explore) viz.\u00a0<i>Reaction force and Reaction resultant in structural physics.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155275\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-18-1.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"200\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Reaction Force<\/strong>\u00a0is a distributed result across the face of the support whereas, the\u00a0<strong>Reaction Resultant<\/strong>\u00a0is the sum of the forces across the entire geometric face.<\/p>\n<p>When multiple supports are used, a better judgement of how the force be distributed can be gauged using\u00a0<strong>reaction force\u00a0 plots<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the following case,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155276\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-18-2.png\" alt=\" width=\"779\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have multiple faces in a support condition (as shown above) then you may see that the Reaction Resultant looks like a different solid color for each face (and the force distribution is over the entire support, showing which support takes more load),<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155278\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-18-3.png\" alt=\" width=\"815\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whereas the Reaction Force looks like a more continuous gradient of color across all the associated faces (to show how it is distributed over one support).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155279\" src=\"\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/OK-18-4.png\" alt=\" width=\"860\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-160259","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-discovery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["09-15-2022  20:20:05"],"_bbp_forum_id":["159543"],"_btv_view_count":["1775"],"family":["Discovery Products"],"application_name":["Discovery"],"product_version":["2022R2"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/160259","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\/160259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}