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Shear Panel Plots can be displayed either as the shear flow along all four edges or the element average shear flow.
The Shear Panel Plots application is accessible from the MSC SuperModel main menu.
Shear Panel Plots extracts the edge shears from shear elements and plots them at the element edge locations. The Average Shear Flow plot is the average of the four edge shears displayed at the element centroid.
The orientation of these values are shown in
Figure 5‑5.
Figure 5‑5 Shear Panel Flow
The Shear Panel Plots main form appears as follows.
A Shear Element Plot of forces with Plot Average Shear selected results in
Figure 5‑6.
Figure 5‑6 Average Shear Flow Plot
A Shear Element Plot of forces with Plot Edge Shear selected results in
Figure 5‑7.
Figure 5‑7 Edge Shear Flow Plot
Note that in
Figure 5‑7, edge shears on adjacent edges are difficult to differentiate.
Changing the Label Position Shrink offsets the edge shears so that the shears on adjacent edges can be seen in
Figure 5‑8.
Figure 5‑8 Modified Edge Shear Flow Plot
Requirements
To make a Shear Panel Plot, Element Forces must be requested when submitting the analysis. The shear element results data is imported from the MSC.Nastran results file, creating a result type of Shear Panel Forces, Shear. The result contains four values for each Shear Panel element. The values represent the q1, q2, q3, and q4 edge shears.
