Report Plate Corner Stress

How to report the plate corner stresses in the output file. 

PRINT ELEMENT STRESSES prints the center stresses. How can I print the corner stresses ? 

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  • There is no direct way to indicate a specific joint for a plate but here is what you can do. You can specify the X and Y distance from the local origin of the plate to that particular node as shown next 

    PRINT ELEMENT JOINT STRESSES AT 2.5 2.5 LIST 100 

    Let’s say there is a plate #100 in your model which has dimensions of 5 units x 5 units. The origin of the plate would be at the centroid of the plate ( local coordinates 0, 0). So to get the stress at one of the corner nodes you may use local X and Y distances of that node measured with respect to the origin of the plate ( specified as numbers 2.5 2.5 in the above command)



    Answer Verified By: khalid Al Shboul 

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