Various type of stress values in hyperview

Altair Forum User

What is the meaning and difference between stress(t) and vonmisess(s) ? As stress(t) only come with shell elements and its values are very high.Which I need to take for a stress analysis as i have assembly having both shell and solid elements?

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Altair Forum User

Hi,

The (t) and (s) are tensor and scalar representation of the results.

You can try with /ANIM/BRICK/TENS/STRESS/ALL for getting stress (t) in solid elements.

Von Mises criteria is a failure criteria uses distortion energy theory,  which is widely used by designers to check whether their design will withstand a given load condition. So, I feel you can go ahead Von Mises criteria for your model.