Tuesday 5 February 2013

I am having a problem interpreting the stress output from a shell element in ABAQUS?

If you are using the shell elements (example : S4, S8R5) then you need to be aware that the stresses are defined in local directions which in turn are dependent on the orientation of each element w.r.t the global axes. 
The Shell element sign convention explains the sign convention for the local directions. 

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