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The following video shows how to plot the deformed shape to check if our boundary conditions have been applied correctly.  
SimCafe: Pressure Vessel in ANSYS, Results1

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The hoop, axial and radial stresses can be found in a similar fashion.
SimCafe: Pressure Vessel in ANSYS, Results2

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A really neat way to represent hoop stress graphically is by using the "path" tool in ANSYS. The following video shows how to display stress as a function of radius much like the figure below. 

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