Reply To: Element volume in USERMAT

[David Weed]

Hi Eric,

If you add all of the contributions from the integration points, then you should get the total volume of the element. e.g., this is the print out of a 2x2x2 hex element with 8 integration points (which we would expect the volume to be 8 units^3):

element num           1
 int point num           1
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           2
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           3
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           4
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           5
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           6
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           7
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100    
 element num           1
 int point num           8
 vect2 value  0.999999999999100