Re: Re: plane stress/plane strain thickness

When using plane stress/strain your loads and reaction forces are all "per 
unit thickness",
so you usually set it to 1 and supply/report forces as "per unit thickness"
If you know a specific dimension for the out of plane thickness then you 
can supply it
and your forces become true or total force.

Notice that if you have only displacement boundary conditions and don't request
reaction forces then the thickness doesn't enter the calculation.






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




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