Get Results at Any Point
EverFE allows the recovery of predicted stresses and displacements at any point in the slabs and base by selecting Results for Points from the Visualization menu. This displays the panel shown below in Figure 1, which corresponds to the example "test_2_3_skew," a project that is installed with EverFE. The upper half of this panel shows six rectangles, each of which corresponds to a slab in the model. The text in each rectangle shows the maximum and minimum principal stresses and their locations in the corresponding slab; for the slab with the highest principal stress (top right in this model), the text is in red.
Figure 1: Results for Points Panel
The bottom portion of the panel as shown in Figure 1 gives the maximum and minimum principal stresses, six stress components, and three displacement components at any user-specified (x,y,z) location. Note also that the plan and elevation views have changed to display a large red circle at the coordinate origin as shown in Figure 2. The circle can be moved in plan (the x-y plane) by a mouse click-and-drag operation in the same manner that an axle load can be positioned. This will cause the (x,y) coordinates in the entry boxes at the bottom of the panel and the corresponding stresses and displacements to be updated. The z-coordinate can be shifted by typing in a value for z in the entry box. Recall that z is positive downward, and the z-coordinate of the top of the slab is the negative of the slab thickness. Further, the slab and base are separated by 1 mm or 0.1 inches, with the bottom of the slab at z = 0; see slab geometry for details. Changing the z-coordinate will move the red circle to the corresponding location in the elevation view.
Figure 2: Results for Points Plan and Elevation View