/COM,ANSYS MEDIA REL. 145 (8/13/2012) REF. VERIF. MANUAL: REL. 145/VERIFY,VM2/PREP7MP,PRXY,,0.3 !material property

/TITLE, VM2, BEAM STRESSES AND DEFLECTIONSC*** STR. OF MATL., TIMOSHENKO, PART 1, 3RD ED., PAGE 98, PROB. 4

ANTYPE,STATIC!ET,1,BEAM188KEYOPT,1,9,3 ! OUTPUT AT 9 INTERMEDIATE LOCATIONSKEYOPT,1,3,3 ! CUBIC SHAPE FUNCTIONSECT,1,BEAM,IW_F=1.048394965W_W=0.6856481SECD,15,15,28+(2*W_F),W_F,W_F,W_WMP,EX,1,30E6N,1 ! DEFINE NODES AND ELEMENTSN,5,480N,6,60,1 $ N,10,420,1FILL,1,5FILL,6,10E,1,2,6EGEN,4,1,1D,2,UX,,,,,UY ! BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND LOADINGD,4,UYNSEL,S,LOC,Y,0D,ALL,UZD,ALL,ROTXD,ALL,ROTYNALLSFBEAM,1,1,PRES,(10000/12)SFBEAM,4,1,PRES,(1E4/12)FINISH/SOLUOUTPR,BASIC,1SOLVEFINISH/POST1SET,1,1PRNSOL,U,COMPPRNSOL,ROT,COMPPLDISP,1MID_NODE = NODE (240,,, )*GET,DISP,NODE,MID_NODE,U,YMID_ELM = ENEARN (MID_NODE)ETABLE,STRS,LS,1

*GET,STRSS,ELEM,MID_ELM,ETAB,STRS*DIM,LABEL,CHAR,2*DIM,VALUE,,2,3LABEL(1) = 'STRS_psi','DEF_in'*VFILL,VALUE(1,1),DATA,-11400,0.182*VFILL,VALUE(1,2),DATA,STRSS,DISP*VFILL,VALUE(1,3),DATA,ABS(STRSS /11400 ) ,ABS( DISP /0.182 )/OUT,vm2,vrt/COM/COM,-------------------VM2 RESULTS COMPARISON ---------------------

/COM,/COM, | TARGET | Mechanical APDL | RATIO/COM,*VWRITE,LABEL(1),VALUE(1,1),VALUE(1,2),VALUE(1,3)(1X,A8,' ',F10.3,' ',F14.3,' ',1F15.3)/COM,---------------------------------------------------------------/OUTFINISH*LIST,vm2,vrt