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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation Preprocessing Enquiry on NLEPEQ and NLPLWK in ANSYS Mechanical Workbench Reply To: Enquiry on NLEPEQ and NLPLWK in ANSYS Mechanical Workbench

Surya Prakash
Ansys Employee


You are right! NLEPEQ represents the accumulated equivalent plastic strain and NLPLWK represents the plastic strain energy density. More User-defined results can be found here - User Defined Results for the Mechanical APDL Solver (ansys.com)

Thanks Surya