1D Space-frame

Altair Forum User

Hi Everybody,

does anybody know which element type should by used if I would like to obtain as results von Mises stresses? I'm on a preliminary step of space-frame design, to get first impression of stresses existing in construction i wanted to make some calculations with different cross-sections applied to wires, however in results in HyperView I can not obtain von Misses stresses. Can someone help beam PBEAM/CBEAM does not help. I made some calculations in Abaqus, there I obtain von Mises, but not in HyperWorks ](*,)

Greets,

Pawel

Altair Forum User

Adding 'STRESS(VON) = YES' to the SUBCASE definition should give you Mises stress in the h3d file also for 1D elements.

Regards,