"Extra" Components for Hughes-Liu Beams

Extra components for Hughes-Liu beams

If the BEAMIP flag on the *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY card is used "extra" data for <beamip> integration points in Hughes-Liu beams will be output. The 5 components for each point are:

These values are calculated by Ansys LS-DYNA, and output in the relevant beam local axes.

The number of integration points worth of output is set by BEAMIP, so you will get (BEAMIP * 5) extra values for each beam in the output file. If a beam has fewer than BEAMIP integration points the "surplus" data slots will contain zeros, if a beam has more than BEAMIP integration points then output for points higher than BEAMIP will be lost.