6B. Contour Plots

Directions are shown here to get contour plot of the bending stress, Sigma xx. It should be obvious how to get a contour plot of other relevant stress components.

MAIN MENU -> General Postproc

      GENERAL POSTPROC -> Plot Results

             PLOT RESULTS -> Contour Plot-nodal solu...

                   CONTOUR NODAL SOLUTION DATA -> Highlight Stress

                   CONTOUR NODAL SOLUTION DATA -> Highlight X-direction SX

                   CONTOUR NODAL SOLUTION DATA -> OK

This displays the results data as contoured stress lines across the model. You should now have a color representation of the stress of your beam similar to the Figure below. Note that the linear variation of bending stress Sigma xx shows up as contours equally spaced in the y direction.



Close PLOT RESULTS window.