Results at Position - Integration Points

Default option in Abaqus. If the ODB file contains only integration point results, the ODB reader in HyperView extrapolates the results to the element corner nodes in addition to the results for the integration points.

Therefore, you get results for both Position = NODES and Position = Integration Points even if the ODB file only contains integration point results.

HyperView use the special suffix "IP" to distinguish integration point results from extrapolated element corner results. The ODB file does not contain information about the exact location of the integration points. Therefore, the nearest corner nodes are used to display the integration point results. The Display corner data option on the Contour panel must be selected to plot contours at these corner nodes. If the Display corner data option is off, all integration point results are averaged as the base result of the element and one uniform value per element is used for the contour plot.
Note: If the number of integration points is more than the number of nodes, only the integration points near the nodes are mapped. Similarly, if the number of integration points is lower than the number of nodes, an arithmetic average will be built from the neighboring integration points to show a value in between (e.g. for a 3 noded quadratic element).

1D Elements

Element Type Total Number of Integration Points Result at Integration Point Maps to Corner (local node) Number Base Result
2-noded line 1

3

 1

1

1

3

 1

2

1

2

 Average
3-noded line 1

2

3

 1

1

1

2

1

3

 1

2

1

2

1

2

 Average

2D Solid, Axisymmetric, and Membrane Elements

Element Type Total Number of Integration Points Result at Integration Point Maps to Corner (local node) Number Base Result
3-noded (TRIA3) 1 1

1

1

 1

2

3

 Average
6-noded (TRIA6) 3 1

2

3

 1

2

3

 Average
4-noded (QUAD4) 4 1

2

3

4

 1

2

4

3

 Average
4-noded (QUAD4) 1 1

1

1

1

 1

2

3

4

 Average
8-noded (QUAD8) 9 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

 1

5

2

8

-

6

4

7

3

 Average
8-noded (QUAD8) 4 1

2

3

4

 1

2

4

3

 Average
Note: It is not recommended to post-process nonlinear axisymmetric elements (SAXA1N, SAXA2N) in HyperView.

2D and Axisymmetric Gasket Elements

Element Type Total Number of Integration Points Result at Integration Point Maps to Corner (local node) Number Base Result
2-noded link (Rod) 1 1

1

 1

2

 Average
4-noded (QUAD4) 2 1

1

2

2

 1

3

2

4

 Average

3D Solid Elements

Element Type Total Number of Integration Points Result at Integration Point Maps to Corner (local node) Number Base Result
4-noded (TETRA4) 1 1

1

1

1

 1

2

4

3

 Average
6-noded (PENTA6) 2 1

1

1

2

2

2

 1

2

3

4

5

6

 Average
8-noded (HEX8) 8 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

 1

2

4

3

5

6

8

7

 Average
8-noded (HEX8) 2 1

1

1

1

2

2

2

2

 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

 Average
10-noded (TETRA10) 4 1

2

3

4

 1

2

3

4

 Average
15 noded (PENTA15) 9 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

 1

2

3

13

14

15

4

5

6

 Average
20 noded (HEX20) 27 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

 1

9

2

12

-

10

4

11

3

17

-

18

-

-

-

20

-

19

5

13

6

16

-

14

8

15

7

 Average
20-noded (HEX20) 8 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

 1

2

4

3

5

6

8

7

 Average

3D Shell Elements at Each Layer

Element Type Total Number of Integration Points Result at Integration Point Maps to Corner (local node) Number Base Result
3-noded (TRIA3) 1 1

1

1

 1

2

3

 Average
3-noded (TRIA3) 3 1

2

3

 1

2

3

 Average
6-noded (TRIA6) 3 1

2

3

 1

2

3

 Average
4-noded (QUAD4) 4 1

2

3

4

 1

2

4

3

 Average
4-noded (QUAD4) 1 1

1

1

1

 1

2

3

4

 Average
8-noded (QUAD8) 9 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

 1

5

2

8

-

6

4

7

3

 Average
8-noded (QUAD8) 4 1

2

3

4

 1

2

4

3

 Average

3D Gasket Elements

Element Type Total Number of Integration Points Result at Integration Point Maps to Corner (local node) Number Base Result
2-noded link (Rod) 1 1

1

 1

2

 Average
4-noded (QUAD4) 2 1

1

2

2

 1

3

2

4

 Average
6-noded (PENTA6) 3 1

1

2

2

3

3

 1

4

2

5

3

6

 Average
8-noded (HEX8) 4 1

1

2

2

3

3

4

4

 1

5

2

6

4

8

3

7

 Average

1st-Order Elements

Figure 1.


Key S-Stress Components (s) Key S-Stress Components IP (s)


Integration point results are extrapolated to the element corners when Display corner data is selected. Abaqus proprietary shape functions and APIs are used.

Integration point results are at the nearest element corners when Display corner data is selected. Results are not extrapolated.


Average of nodes 1, 2, 3, and 4, when Display corner data is deselected.

Average of integration points 1, 2, 3, and 4 when Display corner data is deselected.

2nd-Order Elements

Figure 2.


Key Key


Integration point results are extrapolated to element corners using Abaqus proprietary API and shape functions.

Integration point (IP) results are at the nearest element corners when Display corner data is selected. Results are not extrapolated. Center IP result is ignored.


Average of all extrapolated nodal results when Display corner data is off.

Average of all integration points when Display corner data is deselected.

Results at Position - Nodes

The data type names without the "IP" suffix contain the nodal tensor (ELEMENTAL_NODAL) results as the corner result.

The Abaqus ODB reader reads these values directly from the ODB file (or extrapolates them from the integration point results) and assigns them to the corner of each element. In HyperView, the Display corner data option on the Contour panel has to be selected to plot the contour with corner results.

Von Mises Stress Output for Random Response Analysis

HyperView supports RMS von Mises Stress and von Mises Stress results for Random response analysis.

The output variable “MISES-Mises stress based on segalman(s)” is the von Mises Stress and “RMISES-RMS of Mises stress based on Segalman(s)” is the RMS von Mises Stress output. To calculate the MISES and RMISES output stress value at element level is needed. So in random response analysis the stress output must be requested in the preceding frequency step. These data’s stored in the odb file is extracted in the reader and the actual computation is done based on work by Segalman, et al. (1998).



is the Mises stress calculated based on Segalman, et al. (1998), , is the PSD matrix containing all the frequency related term and , is the stress output for a particular node b.


Where and represent the stress components for and mode at a given node b and A is a constant matrix. The RMS von mises at a node b is calculated using the following equation:


Limitation: The calculation time can be high for big models. In this case, results can be extracted in batch mode using HVTrans.