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*EL PRINT

Keyword type: step

This option is used to print selected element variables in an ASCII file with the name jobname.dat. The following element variables can be selected:

- true (Cauchy) stress (key=S)
- strain (key=E). This is the Lagrangian strain for (hyper)elastic materials, the Eulerian strain for deformation plasticity and the deviatoric elastic left Cauchy-Green tensor for incremental plasticity.
- equivalent plastic strain (key=PE)
- the energy density (key=ENER)
- the internal state variables (key=SDV)

There are two parameter, ELSET and FREQUENCY. The parameter ELSET is required, defining the set of elements for which these stresses should be printed. If this card is omitted, no values are printed. Several *EL PRINT cards can be used within one and the same step. In that case, the variables selected in any of these *EL PRINT cards will be printed for all sets.

The FREQUENCY parameter is optional and applies to nonlinear calculations where a step can consist of several increments. Default is FREQUENCY=1, which indicates that the results of all increments will be stored. FREQUENCY=N with N an integer indicates that the results of every Nth increment will be stored. The final results of a step are always stored. If you only want the final results, choose N very big. The value of N applies to *EL FILE, *ELPRINT, *NODE FILE and *NODE PRINT. If the FREQUENCY parameter is used for more than one of these keywords with conflicting values of N, the biggest value applies to all.

The first occurrence of an *EL FILE keyword card within a step wipes out all previous element variable selections for print output. If no *EL FILE card is used within a step the selections of the previous step apply, if any.

First line:

- *EL PRINT
- Enter the parameter ELSET and its value.

Second line:

- Identifying keys for the variables to be printed, separated by kommas.

    Example:

    *EL PRINT,ELSET=Copper
    E

requests to store the strains at the integration points in the elements of set Copper in the .dat file.

Example files: beampt, beamrb, beamt4.

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