Danger level scale fals in calculation report

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Permalink Reply by Michael Freytag on November 12, 2010 at 11:12am

Olivier,
The behavior you describe is by design.

Broadly, the danger level is stress/material_strength (by some appropriate metric). Thus, when displaying the danger level, red corresponds to "bad" when the ratio (stress/material_strength) is approaching or exceeding 1.0. The more there are areas that have stress exceeding the material strength, the more there will be areas that show up red. If the part is lightly stressed, the danger level will be in the blue area, corresponding to "ok". Eventually, we will allow the user to specify a factor of safety multiplier and choose their own ideas of "bad" and "ok".

The report contains the actual maximum value for the danger level.

Does this make sense?

~Michael

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Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 12, 2010 at 11:19am

Michael, it does not make sense to me.
If "1" is the limit of the danger level, then the scale should go from 0 (or min. danger level coeff.) to the max. danger level calculated in the model.

See attached...

Cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 18, 2010 at 5:41am

Hi Michael,

Still not sure whether this is a bug.
If not, I find this way of presenting the "danger level" rather un-informative because there is no way to spot the exact zones which are avove the acceptable level...

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