Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide

analysis, and the like. They are typically calculated for each element and may be reported at any of the following locations: at ...

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Chapter 7: The General Postprocessor (POST1) Use POST1, the general postprocessor, to review analysis results over the entire mo ...

loads) is also read in,but only if either element nodal loads or reaction loads are available; see the OUTRES command for more i ...

7.1.2.1. Defining Data to be Retrieved The INRES command (Main Menu> General Postproc> Data & File Opts) in POST1 is a ...

To avoid data mismatches when you are solving a subset of a model that was solved previously using a different set of elements, ...

7.1.3.1. Filling the Element Table for Variables Identified By Name To identify an element table column, you assign a label to i ...

(mechanical power).Therefore, if your model has a combination of element types, be sure to select elements of one type(using ESE ...

7.2.1. Displaying Results Graphically Graphics displays are perhaps the most effective way to review results. You can display th ...

Figure 7.1: Contouring Primary Data with PLNSOL If PowerGraphics is enabled, you can control averaging of derived data with the ...

The PLESOL command produce contour lines that are discontinuous across element boundaries. Use this type of display mainly for d ...

Figure 7.5: Unaveraged PLETAB Contours The PLLS command displays line element results in the form of contours. The command also ...

EPPL,EQV or EPCR,EQV). For total strains (item and component EPTOT,EQV), you would typically use an effective Poisson's ratio be ...

You can change the displacement scaling by issuing the /DSCALE command (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Style> Displacement Sc ...

Map the desired quantity on to the path using the PDEF command (Main Menu> General Postproc> Path Operations> Map onto ...

The Item and Comp fields on PLTRAC allow you to see the variation of a specified item (such as velocity, pressure, and temperatu ...

Other commands are: TRPLIS command (Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> List Trace Pt) - lists t ...

could be done using the electric field as a body load applied either with BFE,EF command or with LDREAD,EF command. 7.2.1.7. Cra ...

These POST1 commands are used to define an arbitrary surface and to develop results in- formation for that surface. Delete geome ...

For SurfType = CPLANE,nRefine refers to the number of points that define the surface. If SurfType = CPLANE, and nRefine = 0, the ...