Abaqus/CAE
offers several methods for you to display field output results stored in the
output database.
Some of these methods require that field output data originally
saved to the output database at element centroid or integration point locations
be calculated at nodal locations. Such calculations apply to line- and
banded-type contour plots, probing at nodal locations, forming a display group
or color coding based on result values, and extracting element-based
X–Y data along a path. You can control some of the
options related to these computations, such as how element-based results are
averaged.
In addition, you can choose to apply coordinate system transformations to
your field output results; you can choose from several display forms for
complex results: the magnitude, phase angle, real component, imaginary
component, or value at a specified angle; and you can choose whether or not to
cache results in memory to improve performance.
Select
ResultOptions
to locate the options that control the result calculations, result
transformations, display of complex results, and result caching. This section
discusses the result computations and the options that affect these
computations.