Energy Balance in Abaqus
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Hi, According to the tutorial, the energy balance for a model can be written as: Etotal = ALLKE + ALLIE + ALLVD + ALLFD - ALLWK However, I found that the above energy balance equation is not true for an Implicit dynamics simulation. I think the kinetic energy in the history output is the kinetic energy for the structure at a specific time and when we calculate the energy balance, we should use the increase of kinematic energy. Have anyone examined this energy balance equation in your simulations? Thanks for your time.