Principal Stresses

Entity names: PS1, PS2, PS3, worstPS

The principal stresses $\sigma$ are named PS1, PS2, PS3. From the three principal stresses $\sigma$ the absolute maximum value will be calculated and named worstPS. For example if a node has the three values 100, 0 and -110 MPa then -110 MPa would be shown. The three principal stresses $\sigma_{1}$ $\sigma_{2}$ $\sigma_{3}$ are derived from the following equation:

\begin{displaymath}
\left [
\begin{array}{ccc}
\sigma_{xx}-\lambda & \sigma_{xy}...
... ]
=
\left [
\begin{array}{c}
0\\
0\\
0
\end{array}\right ]
\end{displaymath}

They are given by the three roots of the equation (stress tensor is symmetric: $\sigma_{xy}$ = $\sigma_{yx}$ etc.):

\begin{displaymath}\sigma^3 - (\sigma_{xx}+\sigma_{yy}+\sigma_{zz})\sigma^2 + (\...
...\sigma_{zz}+\sigma_{zz}\sigma_{xx}-\sigma_{xy}^2-\sigma_{yz}^2-\end{displaymath}


\begin{displaymath}\sigma_{zx}^2)\sigma - (\sigma_{xx}\sigma_{yy}\sigma_{zz}+2\s...
..._{yz}^2-\sigma_{yy}\sigma_{zx}^2-\sigma_{zz}\sigma_{xy}^2) = 0 \end{displaymath}