Viewing Stress Contours

If you have included Field Stress in your Unwedge analysis, then you can view the actual stresses computed on the wedge planes. To do this:

  1. Right-click directly on any Perimeter wedge in any 3D wedge view.

  2. In the popup menu, you will see a Field Stress Visualization sub-menu.

  3. From this sub-menu you can choose to view contours of:

Normal Stress

Shear Stress

Sigma 1

Sigma 3

Sigma X

Sigma Y

Tau XY

  1. Just select a data type from the list, and the joint planes of all wedges will immediately display contours of the selected data type. A Field Stress Legend will also be displayed, so you can determine the values of the contours.

  2. Display Elements - in the Field Stress Visualization sub-menu, you can also toggle the Display Elements option on or off. This will show or hide a mesh of triangular elements on the wedge faces. The nodes of the mesh are the locations at which the stress was calculated on each wedge face.

  3. Data Tips - when stress contours are displayed on the wedge planes, if you hover the mouse over any contoured wedge plane, a popup data tip will display the value of the stress at that location.