Post Processing Techniques

How to validate and Check Accuracy of the Result

How to view and Interpret Result

 Important Thumb rule

 Check Reaction Forces, Moments, Residual and strain energy norms
 Stress Plot
 Which stress one should refer to
 FE modeling or meshing for the symmetric structures should be symmetric
otherwise analysis would show unsymmetrical results.
 Importance of Duplicate elements check
 Selection of appropriate type of stress
Average and Unaverage Stresses;
Commercial software's report stresses at following 3 locations
Special Tricks for Post Processing

1) How to avoid un necessary wastage of printer ink;

2) Adjusting scale of color bar in logical manner;
3) Linear superposition of results;
4) Scaling the results;
5) *.jpeg/bmp/tiff format results files and high quality print outs;
6) Excel sheets preferred for tabular results;
7) Stresses across the cross section for 1d elements;
8) Directional stress , vector plot like xx, yy etc;
9) Various options for contour plots;
10)Two color representation;
11) Always report maximum stress location;
12) Stress distribution across cutting planes;
13) Graphical display;
14) Top and bottom stresses for 2-d shell elements;
15) Results mapping;
16) How to plot when only black and white printer is available;
Interpretation of Results and design Modifications;
CAE Reports;