How to extract forces of CBEAM interface nodes

Altair Forum User

Hello to all,

 

I´m struggling with a simple model of two plates connecting with two CBEAM  elements and I would like to extract forces of these CBEAMs extremities. I tried to use MPCFORCES and SPCFORCES on FEM deck, but I cannot extract these forces on posprocessing.  I'm using Optistruct and Hypermesh/Hyperview. I attached the FEM file for clarification.

 

Best regards,

 

Richard

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Altair Forum User

Hi,

 

Try Element forces (ELFORCE) instead.

Altair Forum User

Try Element forces (ELFORCE) instead.

 

Hello

 

I try but does not work.

 

Regards,

 

Richard

Altair Forum User

Hi,

 

This works for me with the test model you shared. See the attached result file. 

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