Scales, Offset, and Axis Assignments

MartinaC

Hi everyone,

I am performing a tensile test on a test coupon bar, accordingly to the tutorial proposed at the part 3.1.5 of Nonlinear_FEA free ebook by Altair. I have some problems in plotting the stress-strain curve: I do not understand why some scale factors are introduced and why the designer chose those values. My main problem is which scale factors values choose for my plot: I use another .fem virtual desk, I create the spring and the RBE2, then I follow document/video steps.

 

Best regards

Martina

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Altair Forum User

Hi

 The scale factor is applied to have the unit consistency , since here the test data is compared with the analysis result and these two curves are plotted in the single page