# FEM stress points in ParaView

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/fem-stress-points-in-paraview/10824
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 20, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/fem-stress-points-in-paraview/10824 "2022-11-20T04:09:39Z")
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### Author: ![raja](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@raja](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/raja)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/fem-stress-points-in-paraview/10824/1 "2022-11-20T04:09:39Z")

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In structyral FEM , the stress are giving in gauss points and exported to paraview. Is paraview is extrapolating the stress value at gauss point to nodla values