EDENERGY

EDENERGY, HGEN, SWEN, SIEN, RLEN
Specifies energy dissipation controls for an explicit dynamics analysis.

Compatible Products: – | – | – | – | – | – | DYNA

HGEN

Hourglass energy control key:

OFF or 0  

 — 

Hourglass energy is not computed.

ON or 1  

 — 

Hourglass energy is computed and included in the energy balance (default).

SWEN

Stonewall energy dissipation control key:

OFF or 0  

 — 

Stonewall energy dissipation is not computed.

ON or 1  

 — 

Stonewall energy dissipation is computed and included in the energy balance (default).

SIEN

Sliding interface energy dissipation control key:

OFF or 0  

 — 

Sliding interface energy dissipation is not computed.

ON or 1  

 — 

Sliding interface energy dissipation is computed and included in the energy balance (default).

RLEN

Rayleigh (damping) energy dissipation control key:

OFF or 0  

 — 

Rayleigh energy dissipation is not computed.

ON or 1  

 — 

Rayleigh energy dissipation is computed and included in the energy balance (default).

Notes

This command is also valid in PREP7.

Distributed ANSYS Restriction This command is not supported in Distributed ANSYS.

Menu Paths

Main Menu>Solution>Analysis Options>Energy Options

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