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      <h4 class="refClassification">Element Stress Discontinuity Output Request </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Requests mesh stress discontinuities based on element stresses. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">ALL </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Stress discontinuity requests for all SURFACE and VOLUME commands defined in the OUTPUT(POST) section will be output. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Set identification number of a previously appearing SET command.  Only surfaces and volumes with identification numbers that appear on this SET command will be included in the stress discontinuity output request.  (Integer&gt;0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">NONE </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">No element stress discontinuity output. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">This output is available in linear static analysis in SOLs 101 and 144 only.  Output will be presented for each surface or volume as a tabular listing of stress discontinuities for each subcase. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">Only elements used to define the surface or volume are output.  See the descriptions of <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/05ref73192_154.html');return(false);">&ldquo;SURFACE&rdquo; </a> and <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/05ref73192_170.html');return(false);">&ldquo;VOLUME&rdquo; </a>. 
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               <p class="para_item">Element stress output (STRESS) must be requested for elements referenced on SURFACE and VOLUME commands.  Also, the GPSTRESS command must be present for printed output and the STRFIELD command for postprocessing output using the .xdb file (PARAM,POST,0) for the same surfaces and volumes. </p>
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