Odd records

[Jhno]

Hi,
when I issue the command " recorder Element -file Stress.out -ele $id material 1 stress " I get odd data.
I do obtain the following after three run of analysis.
-2943 -4414.5 -2943 -2.78795e-011 0
-5846.59 -8906.95 -5901.41 -364.249 0
-7298.38 -11153.2 -7380.62 -546.374 0

Odd thing is I get 5 different values? When I print the element id at the command prompt, column #1 #2 and #4 are correct. I do not know, however, what are column #3 and #5 ?
Should I not get the data from XX YY and XY (that is, three column?? What are those other column supposed to be?).
Thanks for the help!

[skamalzare]

Hi Jhno,

It really depends on the material you are using. For example if you are using ND-Material: PDMY for 2D problems you will record: Sigma_XX, Sigma_YY, Sigma_ZZ, Sigma_XY and Eta_r. Where Eta_r is the ratio between the shear (deviatoric) stress and peak shear strength at the current confinement.

For more information, you can look at the wiki for explanation of specific materials. The information, I gave you, was from :

http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... d_Material

Best Regards,
S.K.

[Jhno]

Thanks for the info !