Hej,
how is it possible to determine the average stress over a area/plane (e.g. yellow/black line in image below) in simulation results? Is that possible with solidworks?
Background: in this study different joints are researched. The average shear in the plane yellow/plane or the average tensile stress in the neck are important for the design evaluation.
Ciao F
Ps.: I hope that the right technical terms for this case were used.
Also helpful is to:
break = cut the model using one of the tools in solidworks like split
You'll need to use split lines to define up the line/area you want to average over (if it doesn't already exist). You can then define a sensor to calculate the average or RMS of a stress quantity over the selected entities.