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Differen conventions used in different codes

  1. Wenbin Yu

    In the book on MSG and our code SwiftComp, we used the common Voigt notation 11, 22, 33, 23, 13, 12 to arrange the stress components into a column matrix. I know that Abaqus, Ansys, and Nastran might use different notations, can you tell me what are the conventions each one used? 

  2. Xin Liu

    As far as I know, the notation arranges as 11, 22, 33, 12, 13, 23 in Abaqus, and 11, 22, 33, 12, 23, 13 in Nastran.

  3. Hamsasew Sertse

    In ANSYS, it is 11, 22, 33, 12, 23, 13, and it is the same as Nastran. 

  4. Erazem Mirtic

    Adding to the answer from Xin Liu Abaqus does use the aforementioned 11, 22, 33, 12, 13, 23 component order with a distinction of internal handling in Abaqus/Explicit. There, the components are stored in different order 11, 22, 33, 12, 23, 13 which is important when programming user subroutines (ie VUMAT).

  5. Zhenyuan Gao

    I can conform Erazem's comment. VUMAT uses a different order (11, 22, 33, 12, 23, 31) from say, UMAT (11, 22, 33, 12, 13, 23).