Stress value display on nodes

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Permalink Reply by Jaeman PARK on September 18, 2015 at 6:24am

I'll add one more explanation for my modeling. There're three meshes(surfaces) and that's why the results have three paths.

Permalink Reply by Jaeman PARK on September 18, 2015 at 6:39am

I read the Karamba manual again. It says that Utilization(of beam) component includes buckling. So it might be same to Utilization(of shell) component. And then, is my approach right?

Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on September 19, 2015 at 3:04am

Hi Jamparc, my explanation for the difference between the values from the 'Utilization'-component and the remapped Van Mises Stresses is that the former consider the maximum of all layers in a cross section. Do you get better results by combining the results from the upper und lower shell layers?

The Utilization of beams includes 2nd order effects through the EC3 formulas which take account of the buckling lengths of the members. In case of shells the utilization is the ratio between the maximum Van Mises Stress in a shell cross section and the yield stress of the material there.

Best,

Clemens

Permalink Reply by Jaeman PARK on September 20, 2015 at 7:26pm

Hi Clemens,

Thanks for your reply. I understood your explanation, but it seemed there's still difference on my GH file. In fact, all the stress shows same max. & min. values on both "-1" & "1" layer.

I attaced my GH file and screen-captured image. My question is, what is correct maximum stress?

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• stress_display_test.gh, 32 KB

Permalink Reply by Jaeman PARK on September 23, 2015 at 5:33am

Hi clemens, 

Sorry that I didn't read the manual carefully and didn't search same questions as mine in this forum.

Now I knew that "Result Vectors on Shells" component show the stress value by the length of vectors. 

By the way, the explanation on output says that the unit is kn/cm^2 , but I think that the result seems much smaller...

Permalink Reply by abdullah y. ibrahim on November 7, 2017 at 12:35am

what do the numbers mean on the displacement and utilization. i know they are for deformation and compression/tension values but how do you read these values? sometimes you get crazy numbers so im wondering if there is a realistic range or doesnt matter as long as you get the idea? if you can clarify please.

Thank you.

Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on November 7, 2017 at 12:30pm

for the usability limit state one usually limits the deflection of a structure to roughly L/300. Here L is the free span. In case of cantilevering structures it is double the value.

A utilization of one means that the material is at its strength limit.

For more details please see the manual.

Best,

Clemens