It appears to be global. If so, how determine the stresses along the Line3 coordinate system (varies for non-linear, large deflection analysis) coordinate system especially? Is it possible to output the Line3 loads in terms axial, bending moment, torsion and shear loads?
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Then the stress components in the solution have different meanings from their names according to this table from the CCX manual:
• xx: Shear force in 1-direction
• yy: Shear force in 2-direction
• zz: Normal force
• xy: Moment about the 1-direction
• xz: Moment about the 2-direction
• yz: Torque
I'm not sure if these are in a coordinate system that rotates with the beam at large displacements so you might need to test that.
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Thanks,
Dave