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:
- component
str
,optional
Structural displacement component to retrieve. Must be
"X"
,"Y"
,"Z"
,"ALL"
or"NORM"
. Defaults to"ALL"
.- option
str
,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).
- component
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]])