The Visualization of 2D Stress and Strain Tensor Fields



Burkhard Wuensche
Department of Computer Science
The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
Email: burkhard@cs.auckland.ac.nz</td>


Colour Images



plateMaxStress

Fig. 8. Maximum principal stress visualized by colour mapping.



plateMaxStressCycled

Fig. 9. Maximum principal stress visualized using a cyclical colour map.



plateIsocontour

Fig. 10. Stress field visualized by tensor ellipsoids and the isocontours of the maximum principal stress.
Please note: Because of the low contrast the isocontours are almost invisible in above JPEG format. You might want to have a look at the image in TIFF format.



exampleStreamlines

Fig. 11. Maximum principal stress visualized with tensor field lines and one hyperstreamline.



exampleSpotNoise

Fig. 12. Topology of a stress field with maximum principal stress visualized by spot noise.



exampleTensorIcon

Fig. 12. Stress field of a plate with a non-linear displacement field visualized with tensor crosses.



plateFractures

Fig. 13. Maximum principal stress in a plate with (left image) crack at the top of the hole and (right image) crack at the bottom of the hole.






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