[Gmsh] gmsh for nonlinear structural analysis

Vnpenguin vnpenguin at vnoss.org
Thu Sep 6 22:36:31 CEST 2007


On 9/5/07, Societa' Analisi Strutturale <MD1704 at mclink.it> wrote:
> I would use gmsh to post-process output from a nonlinear finite element progam for structural analysis (plane stress/strain). The program outputs stresses and strains at integration points. It seems to me that integration points in elements are not supported in gmsh. Can someone suggest me a workaround to this problem?
> Is this capability planned for a future release?

Some FEA softwares use extrapolation function to compute results at
nodes from values at integration points.