Energy recorder

gopaladhikari · Post by **gopaladhikari** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:04 am

Hi Silvia

I wonder whether it is possible to record the energy (eg, damping, strain) associated with each element or with whole structure at each step during time history analysis. I need to verify the energy balance of the system..

Thanks

gopal

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:24 am

you have to do it in post-processing, as everyone has his/her own definition of energy.

arbarbosa · Post by **arbarbosa** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:23 pm

I am also interested in computing the energy of the system. Could you please elaborate on how we can do the computation of the energy (say strain +yielding) by post-processing?

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:12 pm

it's all dependent on your definition of the energy. record displacements and forces where you need them.