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Now, in the outline window, click Solution > Sigma-r. This will bring up the stress distribution for the stress in the r-direction.

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Looking at the distribution, we can see that the stress varies only as a function of r as expected. Also, we can see that there seems to be some sort of stress concentrations in the are where the moment was applied. In our analysis, we ignored these transient stresses, but it is important to know that ANSYS calculated them when we try to obtain the solution to the problem statement. In order to further examine the stresses in the r-direction, lets look at an area far from the transient stresses in order to minimize their effect on the computational solution. Click on Solution > Sigma-r without transience. This solution is the stress in the r-direction at the midpoint of the beam. This line is far enough from the moment that the transient stresses will not affect its local stresses.

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