james95777
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I am using Mechanica with Wildfire 2.0 to lookat stress in a thin-walled pressure vessel, and I would like to see thein-plane stress at all points on the same plot. By in-plane, I mean tangent to the shell. It's a non-circular shape, so there is tension at some points and compression at some points due to the bending stress.
Is there a way to see this in-plane stress, perhaps creating a curvilinear coordinate system?
I'm aware of the membrane stress and bending stressoptions for shell pairs, but this is an 3-ply shellplaced at a surface, not a midsurface shell, so it doesn't give me that option.
Thanks in advance,
James
Is there a way to see this in-plane stress, perhaps creating a curvilinear coordinate system?
I'm aware of the membrane stress and bending stressoptions for shell pairs, but this is an 3-ply shellplaced at a surface, not a midsurface shell, so it doesn't give me that option.
Thanks in advance,
James