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      <h4 class="refClassification">Grid Point Stress Output Request for Printing Only </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Requests grid point stresses for printing only. </p>
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      <div class="refCategoryContent"><pre class="indent">GPSTRESS=ALL
GPSTRESS=19</pre></div>
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                     <p class="para_td">ALL </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Grid point stress 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 grid point stress 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 grid point stress output. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">For statics, normal modes and transient analysis output will be presented for each surface or volume as a tabular listing of grid point stresses for each load, eigenvalue, and time step.  (See <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('QRG/05ref73192_40.html');return(false);">&ldquo;DISPLACEMENT&rdquo; </a> for a discussion of SORT1 and SORT2.) 
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               <p class="para_item">Only grid points connected to elements used to define the surface or volume are output. See the description for <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. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">In nonlinear transient analysis, grid point stresses are computed only if parameter LGDISP is -1, which is the default, and for elements with linear material properties only.  Grid point stresses are not computed for the hyperelastic elements. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">For the graphical display of grid point stresses in the computation of mesh stress discontinuities, the STRFIELD command must be specified. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">Grid point stress is not output for midside nodes. </p>
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