Requesting Beam Element Force Output in SOL101

I have defined a PBUSH element. The idea is to constrain the relative motion in one direction. I have defined a very high stiffness in that direction to make sure there won't be any relative displacement between two ends of the beam element. Now, I would like to query the forces output on the beam element in the direction of applied stiffness. What is the best way to do that?

Is there anything I can add in case control to output Beam Element Forces generated?

0 Don.Graff over 6 years ago

You should be able to get CBUSH forces as a standard data recovery. Make sure you have asked for FORCE=ALL in the case control. If you want to print the results for the BUSH only to the f06 file, then define a SET with just the desired elements and point to that set (for example if the CBUSH element id is 10011):

SET 99=10011

FORCE=99

As long as you defined the CBUSH element coordinate system such that the stiffness is in the correct orientation, then the CBUSH force results should be in that system as well.
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0 dheeraj.kothapalli over 6 years ago

Thanks Don!
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