Re: plane stress/plane strain thickness

Good point. Then what's the exact meaning for the "plane stress/strain
thickness=1"?

meyh

--- In ABAQUS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "acosa_feira"
<this_is_my_junk_mail_address@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Plane stress generally refers to a thin material where the out of 
> plane stress is zero. Plane strain refers to an infinitely thick 
> material where the out of plane strain is zero. Generalised plane 
> strain allows the out of plane strain to be some constant, rather 
> than zero.
> A cylindical model in plane strain would be one that used the R-theta 
> plane, ie looking down the axis of the cylinder to see an annulus. 
> For plane strain set the thickness to unity, for plane stress set the 
> thickness to whatever it is.
> 
> --- In ABAQUS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "humaninchains" <humaninchains@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hello friends:
> > 
> > I am new here. And I am also a beginner to ABAQUS. Although I am so 
> > interested in ABAQUS I am still confused some times, because I 
> > haven't got so many knowledges in mechanics and english is not my 
> > first language.
> > 
> > I have a problem now in section module which is what "plane 
> > stress/plane strain thickness" meaning? If I am trying to create a 
> > cylinder model how can i fill it out? 
> > 
> > Thank you so much
> > 
> > xiaonan








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