element_displacement#

PostProcessing.element_displacement(component='ALL', option='AVG')#

Return element displacement.

One value per element. Either minimum, maximum, or average of all nodes in each element.

Equilvanent MAPDL commands: :rtype: ndarray

ETABLE,VALUES,U,X
PRETAB,VALUES or *VGET,TMP,ELEM,1,ETAB,VALUES

Parameters:

componentstr, optional

Structural displacement component to retrieve. Must be "X", "Y", "Z", "ALL" or "NORM". Defaults to "ALL".

optionstr, optional

Option for storing element table data. One of the following:

"MIN" : Store minimum element nodal value of the specified item component.
"MAX" : Store maximum element nodal value of the specified item component.
"AVG" : Store averaged element centroid value of the specified item component (default).

Examples

Return the average element displacement for all components.

>>> arr = mapdl.post_processing.element_displacement("ALL")
>>> arr.shape
(2080, 3)
>>> arr
array([[ 1.07396154e-06, -9.03608033e-06, -5.17768108e-12],
       [ 3.15631730e-06, -2.65527340e-05,  1.07714512e-11],
       [ 5.12543515e-06, -4.31175194e-05,  2.19929719e-12],
       ...,
       [ 5.41204700e-06, -4.80335719e-05,  7.75819589e-11],
       [ 3.33649806e-06, -2.96109417e-05,  1.44947535e-10],
       [ 1.13836132e-06, -1.01038096e-05,  6.95566641e-11]])