Product: ABAQUS/CAE
Benefits: You can now save the points in a stress line as a path, create a stress line from a saved path, and select the components used to compute the results and to create the X–Y data.
Description: The Stress Linearization dialog box is now divided into two tabs.
The Basic tab includes all the information necessary to create the stress line. To define the endpoints of your stress line, you can select an existing path, select points from the viewport, or type in values. ABAQUS/CAE highlights the completed line and labels the start and end in the viewport. Click mouse button 3 over either endpoint in the dialog box to edit it in the viewport. If you choose to save your stress line to a path, ABAQUS/CAE creates a path with the same name as your stress line and includes the endpoints and each interval point in the path.
The Computations tab includes all the components that ABAQUS/CAE uses to create the report and to plot the stresses at each interval, as shown in Figure 15–4.
Select Components for Creating XY Data to determine what data ABAQUS/CAE plots in the viewport; your selection does not affect the data that ABAQUS/CAE writes in the report. Conversely, your selection of components for computing the invariants affects the report data but does not change the plotted output. The data in the Radius of Curvature of Center Surface portion of the dialog box affect the computation of both displayed and printed stress line output. The in-plane radius defines the curvature of the midplane where the stress line intersects it; the out-of-plane radius defines the curvature axis of symmetry to the same midplane stress line intersection.Visualization module: ToolsQuery: Stress linearization
