Cases Where Stress and Strain Tensor Output are in the Local Coordinate System

Cases where stress and strain tensor output are in the local coordinate system

Flag CMPFLG on the *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY card can be set to cause composite material stress and strain tensor output to be in the element (or material) local coordinate system. There is no way to detect this from the the .PTF file so, if you use this option, D3PLOT will assume that your results are still in the global system. Therefore it will be your responsibility to ensure that you interpret your results correctly.