Whole element variables

The output variables listed below are available in Abaqus/Standard.

LOADS

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: no  .odb History: no  

Current values of distributed loads (not available for nonuniform loads).

FOUND

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: no  .odb History: no  

Current values of foundation pressures.

FLUXS

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Current values of distributed (heat or concentration) fluxes (not available for nonuniform fluxes), including those imported using the HFL co-simulation field ID.

CHRGS

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: no  .odb History: no  

Current values of distributed electrical charges.

ECURS

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: no  .odb History: no  

Current values of distributed electrical currents.

ELEN

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

All energy magnitudes in the element. A limited number of them are available for direct-solution steady-state dynamic and subspace-based steady-state dynamic analyses. Mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses support computation of kinetic and strain energies as well as the energy loss due to viscous and structural damping (material and global).

ELKE

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total kinetic energy in the element. In steady-state dynamic and frequency extraction analyses, this is the cyclic mean value. In frequency extraction analyses, the value of total kinetic energy in the element is normalized. Normalization is performed for each eigenmode separately, such that the kinetic and strain energies for the whole model add up to one.

ELKEA

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total kinetic energy amplitude in the element. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELKEP

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total kinetic energy peak value in the element. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELSE

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total elastic strain energy in the element. When the Mullins effect is modeled with hyperelastic materials, this quantity represents only the recoverable part of energy in the element. In steady-state dynamic and frequency extraction analyses, this is the cyclic mean value. In frequency extraction analyses, the value of total elastic strain energy in the element is normalized. Normalization is performed for each eigenmode separately, such that the kinetic and strain energies for the whole model add up to one.

ELSEA

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total elastic strain energy amplitude in the element. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELSEP

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total elastic strain energy peak value in the element. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELPD

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total energy dissipated in the element by rate-independent and rate-dependent plastic deformation. Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

ELCD

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total energy dissipated in the element by creep, swelling, viscoelasticity, and energy associated with viscous regularization for cohesive elements. Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

ELVD

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total energy dissipated in the element by viscous effects, not including energy dissipated by static stabilization or viscoelasticity. In mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses, only field output in the output database is supported for this variable.

ELVDE

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total energy dissipated in the element by viscous effects due to the material damping. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELVDG

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total energy dissipated in the element by viscous effects due to the global damping. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELHD

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total energy dissipated in the element due to structural damping. This variable includes energy loss due to the material and global structural damping and is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELHDE

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total energy dissipated in the element due to the material structural damping. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELHDG

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Total energy dissipated in the element due to the global structural damping. This variable is available only in mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses.

ELSD

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total energy dissipated in the element resulting from automatic static stabilization. Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

ELCTE

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total electrostatic energy in the element. Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

ELJD

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total electrical energy dissipated due to flow of current. Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

ELASE

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total “artificial” strain energy in the element (energy associated with constraints used to remove singular modes, such as hourglass control, and with constraints used to make the drill rotation follow the in-plane rotation of the shell element). Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

ELDMD

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Total energy dissipated in the element by damage. Not available for steady-state dynamic analysis.

NFORC

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

In all analysis procedures except mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses: forces at the nodes of an element from both the hourglass and the regular deformation modes of that element that represent the action of the element to the rest of the finite element model (internal forces at the element nodes in the global coordinate system).

In mode-based steady-state dynamic analyses: internal forces at the element nodes that represent the action of the element to the rest of the finite element model, including contributions from the element inertia, damping, and deformation (internal forces at the element nodes in the global coordinate system).

The specified position in data and results file requests is ignored.

NFORCSO

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Forces at the nodes of a beam element caused by the stress resultants in the element (internal forces in the beam section orientation coordinate system).

GRAV

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Uniformly distributed gravity load.

BF

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Uniformly distributed body force.

CORIOMAG

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Magnitude of Coriolis load.

ROTAMAG

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Magnitude of rotary acceleration load.

CENTMAG

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Magnitude of centrifugal load (measured as $\rho {\omega }^2$, where $\rho$ is the mass density per unit volume and $\omega$ is the angular velocity).

CENTRIFMAG

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Magnitude of centrifugal load (measured as ${\omega }^2$, where $\omega$ is the angular velocity).

HBF

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: no  

Heat body flux.

NFLUX

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Fluxes at the nodes of the element caused by the heat conduction or mass diffusion in the element (internal fluxes). (The specified position for data and output database file requests is ignored.)

NFLn

.dat: yes  .fil: no  .odb Field: no  .odb History: yes  

Flux n at the nodes of the element ($n=11,12,\mathrm{\dots }$) caused by the heat conduction or mass diffusion in the element (internal fluxes). (The specified position for data and output database file requests is ignored.)

NCURS

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Electrical current at the nodes due to electrical conduction in the element.

FILM

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: no  .odb History: no  

Current values of film conditions (not available for nonuniform films).

RAD

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: no  .odb History: no  

Current values of radiation conditions.

EACTIVE

.dat: no  .fil: no  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Volume fraction of the material in the current element.

EVOL

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Current element volume. (Not available for eigenfrequency extraction, eigenvalue buckling prediction, complex eigenfrequency extraction, or linear dynamics procedures. Available only for continuum and structural elements not using general beam or shell section definitions.)

ESOL

.dat: yes  .fil: yes  .odb Field: yes  .odb History: yes  

Amount of solute in an element, calculated as the sum of ISOL (amount of solute at an integration point) over all the integration points in the element.