Category
Category
All of the components are grouped into a number of generic categories.
The number of contour levels, colours and ranges are (see LEVELS... Setting number of contour levels, their ranges, colours and number format) stored separately for each component category.
The following table gives a brief description of each data category and the Ansys LS-DYNA options needed to output the data for that category to be available in D3PLOT. Unless indicated all of the results are read from the D3PLOT (*.ptf) file.
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Displacements
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Translational data components automatically generated for all nodes. Rotational components available for NASTRAN results read from OP2 file. |
| Temperature | Temperature and flux data components, controlled by THERM on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Acoustic | Read from D3ACS file generated by *FREQUENCY_DOMAIN_ACOUSTIC_FEM |
| Stress | Symmetrical Stress tensor results, controlled by SIGFLG on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Strain | Symmetrical Strain tensor results, controlled by STRFLG on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Principal Stresses | Stress tensor results, controlled by SIGFLG on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Principal Strains | Strain tensor results, controlled by STRFLG on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Shell Resultants | Shell resultant forces and moments, controlled by RLTFLG on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Beam Basic | Beam forces and moments, generated for all beam elements |
| Beam Resultant | Additional moment and energy components for resultant beams (Belytschko-Schwer), controlled by BEAMIP on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Beam Integrated | Additional axial and shear stress/strain components for integrated beams (Hughes-Liu), controlled by BEAMIP on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| Beam Energy | Beam energies generated by NASTRAN and read from OP2 file. |
| Fatigue | Read from D3FTG file generated by *FREQUENCY_DOMAIN_RANDOM_VIBRATION_FATIGUE |
| Extra | Additional time history variables for solids and shells, controlled by NEIPH and NEIPS on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY |
| ALE | |
| SPH | Additional SPH data components generated automatically for *ELEMENT_SPH definitions. In addition to these components SPH elements also output stress and strain tensor results which can be contoured using the STRESS and STRAIN component categories |
| Airbag Particles | Airbag particle data components generated automatically for *AIRBAG_PARTICLE definitions. |
| Discrete Spheres | Additional Discrete Sphere data components generated automatically for *ELEMENT_DISCRETE_SPHERE definitions. In addition to these components Discrete Sphere elements also output stress tensor results which can be contoured using the STRESS component categories |
| Springs | Spring forces read from LSDA (binout) file, controlled by *DATABASE_DEFORC |
| Spotwelds | Spotweld forces read from LSDA (binout) file, controlled by *DATABASE_SWFORC and *DATABASE_DCFAIL |
| SPC's | SPC reaction forces read from LSDA (binout) file, controlled by *DATABASE_SPCFORC |
| Seatbelts | Seatbelt, slipring and retractor results read from LSDA (binout) file, controlled by *DATABASE_SBTOUT |
| X-Sections | Cut section forces and moments read from LSDA (binout) file, controlled by *DATABASE_SECFORC |
| Load Paths | Load path forces, uses cut section forces and moments read from LSDA (binout) file, controlled by *DATABASE_SECFORC |
| Contacts |
Contact segment forces, read from CTFILE. Output controlled by SPR and MPR on *CONTACT, *DATABASE_BINARY_INTFOR and "S=" command line option. |
| Interface | Other interface force results read from BLSTFOR, FSIFOR, CPMFOR and DEMFOR files. |
| Incompressible Flow (ICFD) | Generated by the new Incompressible flow solver in Ansys LS-DYNA |
| Compressible Flow (CESE) | Generated by the new Compressible flow solver in Ansys LS-DYNA |
| Electromagnetic (CESE) | Generated by the new Electromagnetic flow solver in Ansys LS-DYNA |
| Stochastic | Generated by the new Stochastic particle solver in Ansys LS-DYNA |
| Geometry | Volume, relative volume and thickness (controlled by ENGFLG on *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY) |
| Part Data | Part bases energies, velocities, momentum and material properties. For the material properties to be available D3PLOT also needs the ZTFILE (*.ztf) file generated by PRIMER. |
| Element Energies | Element energies generated by NASTRAN and read from OP2 file. |
| Miscellaneous | |
| User Defined | User defined data components (see User Data ). |
| Metal Forming | Components relevant to metal forming (see METAL FORMING ). |
| Material Properties | Similar to but a more refined version of the 'Extra' category. Permits selective contouring of parts for which specific history variables are applicable |
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For these categories to be available D3PLOT also needs the ZTFILE (*.ztf) file generated by PRIMER as the output files generated by Ansys LS-DYNA do not contain enough information to draw these entities. A " " file (include in the installation package) is also required. As the process of opening and scanning the contents of large LSDA files can be very slow on network disks D3PLOT uses a separate thread for opening the LSDA file. While the file is still being opened and scanned these components will remain greyed out but the rest of the menus in D3PLOT will still be available. When the thread has finished opening the file the components will become available
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For these categories to be available a " " file (included in the installation package) is also required. |
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For these categories to be available the " " file (included in the installation package) and the ZTFILE (*.ztf) file generated by PRIMER are both required. To use a customised version of the file mat_prop.csv, the preference d3plot*mat_prop_location can be used to specify a different file path. |