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As with Sigma-r, the stress is a function of r, only. Also, there is some transience near the moment. Again, we will look at an area of the geometry far from the moment to decrease the transience's influence on our solution. Click Solution > Sigma-theta without transience in the outline window to bring up the stress distribution at the middle of the bar.

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If they are not on, make sure to click on the max and min tags once again to see the maximum and minimum stresses. The maximum theta-stress is 1697.63 psi and the minimum theta-stress is -1916.2 psi

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In the details window, click Solution > Tau-r-theta to bring up the stress distribution for shear stress.

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Click the probe tool in the menu bar. This will allow you to hover the cursor over the geometry at see the stress at that point. Hover the probe over points on the geometry far from the moment. You will notice that the stress is on the order of 10e-7. For a beam in pure bending, we assume that the shear stress is zero. However, ANSYS does not make this assumption: it calculates a value for shear stress at every point on the beam. Therefore, it is reassuring that the shear stress is almost negligible, which reinforces our assumption that is is zero.

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