Cable/Discrete element forces in a local coordinate system?

- September 8, 2021 at 4:29 am
  
  mpola002
  Subscriber
  
  In LS-DYNA, is there a way to output forces from discrete elements or cable elements in a local coordinate system?
- September 9, 2021 at 4:10 pm
  
  Ram Gopisetti
  Ansys Employee
  
  Discrete beam element, type 6, relative displacements, rotations, and force resultants, all are given in the local coordinate system, which is also output.
  Use with *DATABASE_HISTORY_BEAM.
  Cheers, Ram
- September 29, 2021 at 9:46 pm
  
  Jim Day
  Ansys Employee
  
  Adding to Ram's comments, associated with *DATABASE_HISTORY_BEAM is the keyword *DATABASE_ELOUT.
  If by "discrete element", you mean a spring or damper defined with *ELEMENT_DISCRETE, use the keyword *DATABASE_DEFORC.