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      <h4 class="refClassification">ELSUM Element Summary Requests </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Requests a summary of element properties for output. </p>
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      <div class="refCategoryContent"><pre class="indent">ELSUM = ALL
ELSUM = 9</pre></div>
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                     <p class="para_td">Element summary output for all elements. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Set identification of a previously appearing SET command. Only produces output for elements whose identification numbers appear on this SET command. (Integer&gt;0). </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">No element summary output. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">The ELSUM Case Control command produces a summary of properties for elements. The properties include element-id, material-id, (length or thickness), area, volume, structural mass, non-structural mass, total mass, and the product total mass * WTMASS. Total mass is the sum of structural and non-structural mass. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">Certain element types produce only partial data. For these element types, output will contain element-id, length or thickness, volume, and area without mass data. Totals will thus not include those elements for which mass data was not generated. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">Mass data will be computed for the following elements: CBAR, CBEAM, CBEND, CHEXA, CONROD, CPENTA, CQUAD4, CQUAD8, CQUADR, CROD, CSHEAR, CTETRA, CTRIAR, CTRIA3, CTRIA6, CTRIAX6, CTUBE. </p>
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