Displaying Strain Data

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ANSYS was chosen because of the versatility of its display package. Two methods were chosen to display the hoop strain data on the cylinder model; as a contour and as a color gradient.

To display the strain data as a contour, models were built with nodal displacements, normal to the cylinder surface and proportional to the hoop strain values. These normal directions are displayed below:

To use the strain values as normal deflections, they were scaled such the the model could have visible contours with out effecting model continuity.

These normal deflections were transformed into the appropriate Cartesian coordinates.