How to plot shear and moment diagrams in ANSYS?


In ANSYS Release 10.0, you need to store the shear and moment results in an ETABLE and then plot them using the PLLS command. Here is an example showing how to plot shear and moment diagrams for BEAM189.

/prep7
et,1,189
sectype,1,beam,rect
secdata,1,1
mp,ex,1,10e6
mp,prxy,1,.3
n,1,0
n,2,10
n,3,20
n,4,5
n,5,15
e,1,2,4
e,2,3,5
d,1,all,0
ddele,1,rotz
d,3,all,0
ddele,3,rotz
f,2,fy,-1000

/solu
solve

/post1
set,first
etable,shy1,smisc,6
etabel,shy2,smisc,19
plls,shy1,shy2

/wait,3
etable,mz1,smisc,3
etable,mz2,smisc,16
plls,mz1,mz2





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