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Plot Deformed Shape

The Results Viewer provides a convenient way to review results.

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Select Forward Only in the Animation Controller.

Plot w Displacement

In the Results Viewer, in place of Displaced structure, choose Nodal Solution > DOF Solution > Z-Component of displacement. Click on the Plot Results icon.

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For filename, enter w_contours. This creates the file _w_contours.png_ in your working directory. Check that you can open this file using your pet image viewer.

Deflection at Facesheet Center

To query the value of the deflection at the center of the facesheet, select the Query Results icon in the Results Viewer.

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Cancel the Query Subgrid Results menu.

σ_xx for Facesheet

For clarity, let's first plot σ_xx for just the facesheet. Select the elements for the facesheet in two steps:

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Cancel the Query Subgrid Results menu.

σ_yy for Facesheet

Results Viewer > Nodal Solution > Stress > Y-Component of stress

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1. At the center, σ_yy= -28 MPa.
2. At the clamped edge location (x=0, y=L1), σ_yy= 77 MPa. What are your corresponding values?

σ_xx for Stiffeners

Currently, the facesheet is selected and the stiffeners are unselected. To plot stress contours for the stiffeners, we'll unselect the facesheet and select the stiffeners i.e. reverse the selection. This can be done using the Invert operation:

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1. At (x=0, y=L₁/6), σ_xx= 312 MPa.
2. At the clamped edge location (x=W₁, y=L₁/6), σ_xx= -653 MPa. What are your corresponding values?

σ_yy for Stiffeners

Results Viewer > Nodal Solution > Stress > Y-Component of stress

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