Can 2D simulation (plane strain model) output all the three displacement components, u1,u2,u3

- August 2, 2019 at 3:32 pm
  
  Hanfei
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  Recently, I am running some 2D simulations (plane strain model) using ANSYS 17.0. I am wondering can I extract all the three components of displacement (u1, u2, u3). Typically, u1 and u2 are default output for 2D simulation. I am not sure if I can get u3 from 2D simulation
- August 3, 2019 at 3:57 pm
  
  jj77
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  Plane strain elements (modelled on xy plane) have only x and y dof, not out of plane, so 2 dof per node.
  
  See theory manual say plane elements like plane42.
  
  Also see a post from Tony Abbey about plane stress and strain elements
  
  https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/simplifying-fea-models-plane-stress-and-plane-strain/
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