PLESOL

PLESOL, Item, Comp, KUND, Fact, AVG
Displays solution results as discontinuous element contours.

POST1: Results

Item

Label identifying the item. Valid item labels are shown in the table below. Some items also require a component label. For selected result output, specify SRES and see Table 215: PLESOL - Selected Result (SRES) Component Labels.

Comp

Component of the item (if required). Valid component labels are shown in the table below.

KUND

Undisplaced shape key:

0	—	Do not overlay undeformed structure display.
1	—	Overlay displaced contour plot with undeformed display (appearance is system-dependent).
2	—	Overlay displaced contour plot with undeformed edge display (appearance is system-dependent).

Fact

Scale factor for 2D display of contact items. Default = 1. To invert the display, specify a negative scaling factor.

AVG

Specifies whether results of reinforcing members within the same reinforcing element are smoothed:

0	—	Disable smoothing.
1	—	Enable smoothing (default), displaying constant results of reinforcing members if the base elements are low-order, and linear results when the base elements are high-order.

Notes

PLESOL displays the solution results as element contours discontinuous across element boundaries for the selected elements.

For example, PLESOL,S,X displays the X component of stress S (that is, the SX stress component). Various element results depend on the calculation method and the selected results location (AVPRIN, RSYS, and ESEL).

Contours are determined by linear interpolation within each element, unaffected by the surrounding elements; that is, no nodal averaging occurs. The discontinuity between contours of adjacent elements is an indication of the gradient across elements. Component results are displayed in the active results coordinate system (RSYS [default is global Cartesian]).

To display items not available via PLESOL (such as line element results), see ETABLE and PLETAB.

For PowerGraphics displays (/GRAPHICS,POWER), results are plotted only for the model exterior surface. Items not supported by PowerGraphics are noted in Table 214: PLESOL - General Result Item and Component Labels.

The results displayed by PLESOL are unaffected by any requested nodal-averaged results (OUTRES,NAR). For more information, see Nodal-Averaged Results in the Element Reference.

For Item = SRES, selected result (OSRESULT) values are output. See Table 215: PLESOL - Selected Result (SRES) Component Labels.

Table 214: PLESOL - General Result Item and Component Labels

General Item and Component Labels PLESOL, Item, Comp

Item Comp Description

S X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component stress.

1, 2, 3 Principal stress.

INT Stress intensity.

EQV Equivalent stress.

EPEL X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component elastic strain.

1, 2, 3 Principal elastic strain.

INT Elastic strain intensity.

EQV Elastic equivalent strain.

EPDI X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component diffusion strain.^[a]

1, 2, 3 Principal diffusion strain.

EQV Diffusion equivalent strain.

INT Diffusion strain intensity.

EPPL X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component plastic strain.

1, 2, 3 Principal plastic strain.

INT Plastic strain intensity.

EQV Plastic equivalent strain.

EPCR X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component creep strain.

1, 2, 3 Principal creep strain.

INT Creep strain intensity.

EQV Creep equivalent strain.

EPTH X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component thermal strain.

1, 2, 3 Principal thermal strain.

INT Thermal strain intensity.

EQV Thermal equivalent strain.

EPSW Swelling strain.

EPTO X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Component total mechanical strain (EPEL + EPPL + EPCR).

1, 2, 3 Principal total mechanical strain.

INT Total mechanical strain intensity.

EQV Total mechanical equivalent strain.

EPTT X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Total mechanical, thermal, diffusion, and swelling strain (EPEL + EPPL + EPCR + EPTH + EPDI + EPSW).

1, 2, 3 Principal total mechanical, thermal, diffusion, and swelling strain.

INT Total mechanical, thermal, diffusion, and swelling strain intensity.

EQV Total mechanical, thermal, diffusion, and swelling equivalent strain.

NL SEPL Equivalent stress (from stress-strain curve).

SRAT Stress state ratio.

HPRES Hydrostatic pressure.

EPEQ Accumulated equivalent plastic strain.

CREQ Accumulated equivalent creep strain.

PSV Plastic state variable.

PLWK Plastic work/volume.

SEND ELASTIC^[b] Elastic strain energy density. (For viscoelastic and sintering materials, the stored energy.)

PLASTIC Plastic strain energy density.

CREEP Creep strain energy density.

DAMAGE Damage strain energy density.

VDAM^[b] Viscoelastic dissipation energy density.

VREG Visco-regularization strain energy density.

DISS Structural-thermal dissipation.

ENTO Total strain energy density (sum of ELASTIC, PLASTIC, and CREEP strain energy densities).

CDM DMG Damage variable.

LM Maximum previous strain energy for virgin material.

FAIL MAX Maximum of all active failure criteria defined at the current location.^[a]^[c]

EMAX Maximum Strain Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]

SMAX Maximum Stress Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]

TWSI Tsai-Wu Strength Index Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]

TWSR Inverse of Tsai-Wu Strength Ratio Index Failure Criterion^[a]^[c]

HFIB Hashin Fiber Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

HMAT Hashin Matrix Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

PFIB Puck Fiber Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

PMAT Puck Matrix Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

L3FB LaRc03 Fiber Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

L3MT LaRc03 Matrix Failure Criterion.^[c]^[d]

L4FB LaRc04 Fiber Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

L4MT LaRc04 Matrix Failure Criterion.^[a]^[c]^[d]

USR1, USR2, ..., USR9 User-defined failure criteria.^[a]^[c]^[d]^[e]

PFC MAX^[f] Maximum of all failure criteria defined at current location.

FT^[f] Fiber tensile failure criteria.

FC^[f] Fiber compressive failure criteria.

MT^[f] Matrix tensile failure criteria.

MC^[f] Matrix compressive failure criteria.

PDMG STAT Damage status (0 = undamaged, 1 = damaged, 2 = completely damaged).

FT Fiber tensile damage variable.

FC Fiber compressive damage variable.

MT Matrix tensile damage variable.

MC Matrix compressive damage variable.

S Shear damage variable (S).

SED Energy dissipated per unit volume.

SEDV Energy per unit volume due to viscous damping.

FCMX LAY Layer number where the maximum of all active failure criteria over the entire element occurs.^[a]^[c]

Number of the maximum-failure criterion over the entire element:^[a]^[c]

1 = EMAX

2 = SMAX

3 = TWSI

4 = TWSR

5 = PFIB

6 = PMAT

7 = HFIB

8 = HMAT

9 = L3FB

10 = L3MT

11 = L4FB

12 = L4MT

13~21 = USR1~USR9

VAL Value of the maximum failure criterion over the entire element:^[a]^[c]

SVAR 1, 2, 3, ... N State variable.^[a]

GKS X, XY, XZ Gasket component stress.

GKD X, XY, XZ Gasket component total closure.

GKDI X, XY, XZ Gasket component total inelastic closure.

GKTH X, XY, XZ Gasket component thermal closure.

SS X, XY, XZ Interface traction (stress).

SD X, XY, XZ Interface separation.

CONT

STAT

Contact status:^[g]

3 = closed and sticking

2 = closed and sliding

1 = open but near contact

0 = open and not near contact

PENE Contact penetration.

PRES Contact pressure.

SFRIC Contact friction stress.

STOT Contact total stress (pressure plus friction).

SLIDE Contact sliding distance.

GAP Contact gap distance.

FLUX Total heat flux at contact surface.

CNOS Total number of contact status changes during substep.

FPRS Fluid penetration pressure.

TG^[h] X, Y, Z, SUM Component thermal gradient or vector sum.

TF^[h] X, Y, Z, SUM Component thermal flux or vector sum.

PG X, Y, Z, SUM Component or vector sum of velocity or energy density flux (room acoustics).

EF X, Y, Z, SUM Component electric field or vector sum.

D X, Y, Z, SUM Component electric flux density or vector sum.

H X, Y, Z, SUM Component magnetic field intensity or vector sum.

B X, Y, Z, SUM Component magnetic flux density or vector sum.

CG X, Y, Z, SUM Component concentration gradient or vector sum.^[a]

DF X, Y, Z, SUM Component diffusion flux density or vector sum.^[a]

FMAG X, Y, Z, SUM Component electromagnetic force or vector sum.^[a]

P X, Y, Z, SUM Poynting vector component or sum.^[a]

SERR^[i] Structural error energy.^[a]

SDSG^[i] Absolute value of the maximum variation of any nodal stress component.^[a]

TERR^[i] Thermal error energy.^[a]

TDSG^[i] Absolute value of the maximum variation of any nodal thermal gradient component.^[a]

F X, Y, Z X, Y, or Z structural force.^[a]^[j]

M X, Y, Z X, Y, or Z structural moment.^[a]

HEAT Heat flow.^[a]

FLOW Fluid flow.^[a]

AMPS Current flow.^[a] Use FORCE for type.

CHRG Charge.^[a] Use FORCE for type.

FLUX Magnetic flux.^[a]

CSG X, Y, Z X, Y, or Z magnetic current segment component.^[a]

RATE Diffusion flow rate.

SENE "Stiffness" energy or thermal heat dissipation.^[a] Same as TENE.

STEN Elemental energy dissipation due to stabilization.^[a]

TENE Thermal heat dissipation or "stiffness" energy.^[a] Same as SENE.

KENE Kinetic energy.^[a]

ASENE Amplitude "stiffness" energy.^[a]

PSENE Peak "stiffness" energy.^[a]

AKENE Amplitude kinetic energy.^[a]

PKENE Peak kinetic energy.^[a]

DENE Damping energy.^[a]

WEXT^[k] Work due to external load.^[a]

AENE Artificial energy due to hourglass control/drill stiffness or due to contact stabilization.^[a]

JHEAT Element Joule heat generation.^[a]

JS X, Y, Z, SUM Source current density for low-frequency magnetic analyses. Total current density (sum of conduction and displacement current densities) in low frequency electric analyses. Components (X, Y, Z) and vector sum (SUM).^[a]

JT X, Y, Z, SUM Total measureable current density in low-frequency electromagnetic analyses. (Conduction current density in a low-frequency electric analysis.) Components (X, Y, Z) and vector sum (SUM).^[a]

JC X, Y, Z, SUM Conduction current density for elements that support conduction current calculation. Components (X, Y, Z) and vector sum (SUM).^[a]

MRE Magnetic Reynolds number.^[a]

VOLU Volume of volume element.^[a]

CENT X, Y, Z Centroid X, Y, or Z location (based on shape function) in the active coordinate system.^[a]

BFE TEMP^[l] Body temperatures (calculated from applied temperatures) as used in solution (area and volume elements only).^[m]

SMISC snum Element summable miscellaneous data value at sequence number snum (shown in the Output Data section of each element description.

NMISC snum Element non-summable miscellaneous data value at sequence number snum (shown in the Output Data section of each element description.

CAP C0,X0,K0,ZONE, DPLS,VPLS Material cap plasticity model only: Cohesion; hydrostatic compaction yielding stress; I1 at the transition point at which the shear and compaction envelopes intersect; zone = 0: elastic state, zone = 1: compaction zone, zone = 2: shear zone, zone = 3: expansion zone; effective deviatoric plastic strain; volume plastic strain.

EDPC CSIG,CSTR Material EDP creep model only (not including the cap model): Equivalent creep stress; equivalent creep strain.

FICT TEMP Fictive temperature.

ESIG X,Y,Z,XY,YZ,ZX Components of Biot’s effective stress.

1, 2, 3 Principal stresses of Biot’s effective stress.

INT Stress intensity of Biot’s effective stress.

EQV Equivalent stress of Biot’s effective stress.

DPAR TPOR Total porosity (Gurson material model).

GPOR Porosity due to void growth.

NPOR Porosity due to void nucleation.

FFLX X,Y,Z Fluid flow flux in poromechanics.

FGRA X,Y,Z Fluid pore-pressure gradient in poromechanics.

MENE Acoustic potential energy.^[a]

PMSV VRAT, PPRE, DSAT, RPER Void volume ratio, pore pressure, degree of saturation, and relative permeability for coupled pore-pressure-thermal elements.

YSIDX TENS,SHEA Yield surface activity status for Mohr-Coulomb, soil, concrete, and joint rock material models: 1 = yielded, 0 = not yielded.

FPIDX TF01,SF01, TF02,SF02, TF03,SF03, TF04,SF04 Failure plane surface activity status for concrete and joint rock material models: 1 = yielded, 0 = not yielded. Tension and shear failure status are available for all four sets of failure planes.

NS X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Nominal strain for hyperelastic material, reported in the current configuration (unaffected by RSYS).

MPLA DMAC, DMAX Microplane damage, macroscopic and maximum values.

MPDP TOTA, TENS, COMP, RW Microplane homogenized total, tension, and compression damages (TOTA, TENS, COMP), and split weight factor (RW).

DAMAGE 1,2,3,MAX Damage in directions 1, 2, 3 (1, 2, 3) and the maximum damage (MAX).

GDMG Damage

IDIS Structural-thermal dissipation rate

BKS X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Total nonlinear kinematic backstress reported in the current configuration (unaffected by RSYS). Available for 3D, plane strain, and axisymmetric elements.

BKS1, . . . ,BKS5 X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ Superimposed components of the total nonlinear kinematic backstress reported in the current configuration (unaffected by RSYS). Available for 3D, plane strain, and axisymmetric elements when more than one superimposed back-stress component is defined.

EPFR Free strain in porous media

SNDI X, Y, Z, SUM Component sound intensity or vector sum.^[a]

FC1S 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of FCC crystal slip. Available for 3D elements only.

FC2S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of FCC crystal slip. Available for 3D elements only.

HC1S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Six components of HCP crystal slip on basal and prismatic systems. Available for 3D elements only.

HC2S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Six components of HCP crystal slip on pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

HC3S 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of HCP crystal slip on the first-order pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

HC4S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of HCP crystal slip on the first-order pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

HC5S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Six components of HCP crystal slip on the second-order pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

BC1S 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of BCC slip on 111 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC2S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of BCC slip on 111 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC3S 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of BCC slip on 112 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC4S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of BCC slip on 112 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC5S 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of BCC slip on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC6S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of BCC slip on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC7S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Third set of six components of BCC slip on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC8S 1,2,3,4,5,6 Fourth set of six components of BCC slip on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

FC1H 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of FCC crystal hardness. Available for 3D elements only.

FC2H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of FCC crystal hardness. Available for 3D elements only.

HC1H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Sixcomponents of HCP crystal hardness on basal and prismatic systems. Available for 3D elements.

HC2H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Six components of HCP crystal hardness on pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

HC3H 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of HCP crystal hardness on the first-order pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

HC4H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of HCP crystal hardness on the first-order pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

HC5H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Six components of HCP crystal hardness on the second-order pyramidal system. Available for 3D elements only.

BC1H 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of BCC hardness on 111 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC2H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of BCC hardness on 111 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC3H 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of BCC hardness on 112 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC4H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of BCC hardness on 112 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC5H 1,2,3,4,5,6 First set of six components of BCC hardness on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC6H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Second set of six components of BCC hardness on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC7H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Third set of six components of BCC hardness on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

BC8H 1,2,3,4,5,6 Fourth set of six components of BCC hardness on 123 plane. Available for 3D elements only.

XELG 1,2,3,45,6,EQV Crystal Lagrangian strain in 11, 22, 33, 12, 23,13 directions and its equivalent. Available for 3D elements only.

SINT RHO, ETA, SSTR, GRAIN Sintering relative density, viscosity, sintering stress, and average grain size values.

^[a]Not supported by PowerGraphics.

^[b]The results for this postprocessing SEND component are invalid for ELBOW290 if that element is used with viscoelastic or viscohyperelastic materials.

^[c]Works only if failure criteria are provided (FC and TB).

^[d]Must first be added (FCTYP.

^[e]USR1 through USR9 require a failure-criteria routine.

^[f]Failure criteria are based on the effective stresses in the damaged material.

^[g]For MPC-based contact definitions, the value of STAT can be negative, indicating that one or more contact constraints were intentionally removed to prevent overconstraint. STAT = -3 is used for MPC bonded contact; STAT = -2 is used for MPC no-separation contact.

^[h]Comp = SUM is not supported for coupled pore-pressure-thermal (CPTnnn) elements.

^[i]Some element- and material-type limitations apply. (See PRERR.)

^[j]Do not use PLESOL to obtain contact force values for contact elements. (The force values reported may not be accurate for these elements.) Use ETABLE instead.

^[k]WEXT is calculated for element-based loading only (and not for nodal-force loading). WEXT is stored on elements to which loading has been applied; if surface elements are added on top of other elements, for example, and pressure loading is applied to the surface elements, WEXT is available for the surface elements only.

^[l]For reinforcing elements REINF264 and REINF265, issue PLESOL,BFE,TEMP to plot the corner-point temperature of each member. You can also plot intersection-point temperature gradients (PLESOL,TG) and intersection-point heat flux (PLESOL,TF). For higher-order reinforcing members (generated when using higher-order base elements), the midpoint values are not available for the reinforcing members.

^[m]For SOLID278 and SOLID279 with KEYOPT(3) = 2, use PLESOL,BFE,TEMP to plot the temperature distribution through the thickness of the element. When other thermal elements are included in the model, they should be unselected to avoid plotting undefined information.

Table 215: PLESOL - Selected Result (SRES) Component Labels

PLESOL,SRES,`Comp`
Comp	Description
SVAR`n`	The `n`th state variable.
FLDUF0`n`	The `n`th user-defined field variable.
`ItemComp` (concatenated `Item` + `Comp` label) from Table 210: OSRESULT - Item and Component Labels^[a]	See the table for the combined item and component description.

^[a]See Example 10: Specifying and Retrieving Selected Result Output.

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