Hey guys,
I am geting stuck these days for how to get a strain history plot of solid elements under the local coordinate system. Right now, I have already defined a local CS, and I did get a strain history plot for "local" CS, but I found the result was not as it should be, since this "local" strain is nothing but the strain under the global coordinate system with axes rotation, for instance the "local" x-strain is exactly the y-strain under the global CS.
So I wonder do you have any idea how to fix my problem?
Any suggestion or help would be greatly appricated!
I’m pretty sure you need an anisotropic material and then there is a flag to activate in the material card that should allow you to look at local strain.
Thanks for your reply! I'm still not very clear about the manipulation you mentioned, but fortunately I've figured out the problem just before.
Oh perfect! How were able to figure it out? I believe that this is something that many people have been curious about.
I'm sorry for my late reply.
I'm not sure if my problem is the same as what you told about, as what I did is just inputting a local coordinate system from the "general setting" module, which I did not find earlier before. Also I believe the material I used is isotropic, and the reason why I used local strain is to compare with the results on strain gauges.