forces recorder in brick element

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shivanirani11
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forces recorder in brick element

Post by shivanirani11 » Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:46 am

Can you please tell me the output format of forces recorded for a brick element.

vesna
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Re: forces recorder in brick element

Post by vesna » Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:39 am

if you record them in -xml format you will get info that you are looking for.

shivanirani11
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Re: forces recorder in brick element

Post by shivanirani11 » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:18 am

Dear Ma'am,

Thank you for reply. I have one query. I have brick element to simulate my 3D problem. Now I want to calculate the bending moment. Can you please tell me how to calculate that as force recorder only provide the shear forces.

I will wait for your reply.

Thank you

vesna
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Re: forces recorder in brick element

Post by vesna » Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:41 am

Use shear forces to calculate the moments.

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