Postprocessing of Adina Strains

Abstract

A procedure has been developed for processing the strains available with the computer program ADINA to provide strain output in any desired orientation and to calculate and output strains on the surface of a three- dimensional solid or shell element. To this end, proper additions and modifications have been made to ADINA to implement the procedure directly within the program to allow for the processing and output of strains during the normal execution stage. This includes reading in additional input data (of minimum amount), transformation of strains from the global system to specified coordinate directions, the output of transformed strains, and the calculation and output of surface strains based on the interpolation functions available in ADINA. At the present time such capabilities are provided for a limited number of elements on a selective basis, in order to minimize the amount of computer storage required. Some typical structures have been analyzed to compute and output strains both at interior points and on exterior surfaces of elements, for a set of elements specified by the user during the input stage. Results demonstrate the feasibility of the procedure for the transformation and extrapolation of strains. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA109444

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