{"id":459993,"date":"2026-06-18T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/internal-energy-output-of-a-set-of-shell-elements\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:25:50","slug":"internal-energy-output-of-a-set-of-shell-elements","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/internal-energy-output-of-a-set-of-shell-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal energy output of a set of shell elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am running a windshield impactor simulation in LS-DYNA, and I would like to obtain the internal energy output for a specific set of shell elements.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried using <code>ELOUT<\/code> and <code>DATABASE_HISTORY_SHELL<\/code>, but so far I have not been able to find the internal energy output for the shell element set.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to directly output the internal energy of a selected set of shell elements in LS-DYNA?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this output is not available directly, what would be the recommended way to extract or calculate this data? For example, are there any post-processing scripts, LS-PrePost options, or other methods that could be used?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-459993","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-energy-1","topic-tag-ls-dyna","topic-tag-shell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27814"],"_bbp_topic_id":["459993"],"_bbp_subscription":["691341","480261"],"_bbp_author_ip":["2a00:8a60:e000:101:79c0:184a:76d7:f779"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["460064"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["460064"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2026-06-19 07:20:43"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["691341","480261"],"_btv_view_count":["120"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_notification_enabled":["691341"]},"test":"alikuryanhotmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/459993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/459993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}