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Now, look at the Outline window, and select Solution > Total Deformation. First, we will look at just the deformation of the plate, without contours. To do this, select the Contours button, , and select Solid Fill. To display an undeformed body, click the Result drop-down menu next to the Contours button, and select Undeformed. 

There are a few things we can determine from this picture. Let's use our intuition and the work we did in the pre-analysis to compare to the result ANSYS gives us. First, let's look at the bottom and left edges of the plate. We can see that the deformation on these edges is parallel to the sides, which agrees with the symmetry boundary condition. The top edge of the plate has deformed downwards, which is due to the effects of Poisson's ratio. The right edge has moved to the right, which is consistent with the expected behavior, due to the plate being in tension. So we can deduce the following boundary conditions from looking at the deformation.

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