Beam Element Results
Beam element results
Beams in Ansys LS-DYNA are always linear, 2-noded elements. There are several different formulations but the two principal types are:
| Resultant: |
Used for standard sections, and special "plastic" resultant formulations. |
| Integrated: |
Also used for standard sections, but also for user-defined arbitrary sections. |
Note that due to a bug in Ansys LS-DYNA the output sign convention used for the two types above is inconsistent up to and including Ansys LS-DYNA release 970, this problem has been fixed from Ansys LS-DYNA 971 onwards. This issue is described in beamip where controlling beam output is discussed. This has implications for beam plotting and when extracting cut section forces and moments through beam structures (see FORCES Computing forces and moments on the cutting plane ).