***elastic_energy#
This command is now obsolete, please have a look at
***energy_monitoring.
Description#
This option indicates that a calculation of the global elastic strain energy should be made and output. This calculation gives the following energy calculation for the structure:
where \(\tenf D\) is the elastic matrix extracted from the the material behavior.
The result of this the elastic energy is stored in a formatted ASCII
file named problem.elastic_energy. The output is sequential,
with one line per increment of the calculation.
Syntax#
***elastic_energy elset-name
[ **frequency frequency ]
[ **precision precision ]
- elset-name
is a character name for the element set over which the strain energy is calculated. The predefined element set
ALL_ELEMENTmay be used to declare the entire structure.- frequency
may be used to specify when the energy is computed (by default, it is made at each increment). This option has the same syntax as output frequency (see ***output **frequency).
- precision
is an integer specifying how many significant digits are used in the output file (default is 6).
Example#
From $Z7TEST/Energy_test/INP/elastic_energy1.inp
***elastic_energy ALL_ELEMENT