Requesting output for ANSYS analyses

In the ANSYS environment, you create an ANSYS output request modeling object, such as an ANSYS Structural Output Request, modeling object to request the types of output that you want the software to calculate during the analysis. Each output corresponds to an item for the ANSYS OUTRES and OUTPR commands. For example, you can specify:

• The results data that you want ANSYS to write to the results (.rst or .rth) data file. Results items can include the nodal DOF solution, nodal and reaction loads, as well as the element solution (such as element nodal stresses, strains, and fluxes). In ANSYS, these options are controlled by the OUTRES command.

• The results items that you want ANSYS to print to the output (.out) file, which is also called the solution printout file. In ANSYS, these options are controlled by the OUTPR command.

For both the results and solution printout file, you can control:

• The results type that ANSYS writes out or prints.

• The frequency at which ANSYS evaluates a specific type of results.

• The set of elements or nodes for which you want to calculate the results.

After you define an ANSYS output request modeling object, you can reference it in different solutions or solution steps.

Note:

Some output control options are related to element type. For example, for SHELL281 elements, KEYOPT(10) is used to control the output of normal stress values (Sz)

Output requests in solution steps

By default, the software uses any output requests that you define for the solution to define the output for a solution step. You can use Change output controls option on the Output Controls tab in the Solution Step dialog box to specify a different output request modeling object for a selected solution step.

Alternative output controls

If you select the Alternative Output Controls option on the Output Controls tab in either the Solution or the Solution Step dialog box, you can specify a more limited set of output options.

Because output requests are not relevant to all types of solution steps, you cannot define output request modeling objects in the following solution steps:

• Step-Modal Loads

• Step-Linear Buckling Method

• Step-Nonlinear Buckling

• Harmonic Full Method-Loads, Constraints

• Step-Transient-Loads, Mode-Superposition

• Steady State Thermal

• Transient Thermal

Additional information

For more information, see:

• OUTPR and OUTRES in the ANSYS Commands Reference manual.

• Solution Output in the ANSYS Elements Reference manual.

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