Re: Re: plane stress/plane strain thickness

Also, are there any reasons why plane stress can be of any thickness
and plane strain to be set to unity?


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:40:26 -0000, meyh2002 <meyh2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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