element_stress#

PostProcessing.element_stress(component, option='AVG')#

Return element component or principal stress.

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

Equilvanent MAPDL commands: :rtype: ndarray

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

Parameters:

componentstr

Element stress to retrieve. One of the following:

X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ	Component stress.
1, 2, 3	Principal stress.
INT	Stress intensity.
EQV	Equivalent stress

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).

Returns:

numpy.ndarray: Numpy array of stresses.

Examples

Return the average element component stress in the X direction.

>>> arr = mapdl.post_processing.element_stress("X")
>>> arr.shape
(2080, 3)
>>> arr
array([-0.29351357, -0.37027832, -0.37340827, ...,  0.        ,
        0.        ,  0.        ])