Generating stress strain and Force displacement curve from bending test for a particular node

You need one of the following 3 forms of nonlinearities to trigger the nonlinear solution procedure and get multiple frames of results:

  • contact
  • nonlinear material model (usually plasticity, sometimes hyperelasticity)
  • Nlgeom

There is a workaround in CalculiX with a dummy plastic material. It’s discussed in detail here: Bending Moment + Rotation Simulation