Stresses not showing

mike

I did a run and everything converged and completed but the stresses aren't showing. I ran non-linear static-3d. It does show the deformed shape over time. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Victor

Some possible reasons:

A ) If stress is listed in the outline tree but has no data, it may have failed to converge. In that case, it sometimes shows the final displacement without stress.

B ) If stress isn't shown in the outline tree, add it through Solution -> New Stress and strain -> ... and you may have to solve again to generate the data.

C ) You may be using a type of stress that's not available for any elements in the model. Eg. stress (components in global coordinates) on shell elements with the internal solver.

mike

Thanks will check all those!!

mike

Actually I found the issue. There was a weird spike in stresses near the end of the run that was 10x higher than the stresses at other times. As a result the auto-range of stresses was so high that the other stresses were barely showing up. By adjusting the range, everything showed up fine in the pertinent area.
Thanks!