Hello,
I have performed a nonlinear FEM analysis and applied surface springs on both the left and right sides of a symmetric component. Now, after the calculation, I would like to review the forces on each surface spring in example X-Direction. How can I display this information?
Best regards,
Forces in CalculiX’s springs can’t be obtained directly but there are some workarounds to get them:
hopefully surface spring implementation changed in future by using two node spring elements attached to fixed ground, so reaction force can be obtained. This value usually required to further calculate of ground pressure related to tributary area itself. Compression only features also can made improvement like this, similarly with common external post processor available.
oh thats quite complicated for me, where do i set:
*EL PRINT, ELSET=Spring_of_interest
ELSE?
Is there any tutorial?
absolutley thats what i want to see too 