MPM Global Archiving Options

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Global archiving is an option to save calculated results in a tab-delimited text file. The sections how to use this feature.

Introduction

In MPM calculations, the solution is stored in a series of archive files (see <a href="archive.html">Archive Command</a>). You can optionally create a global results file which will store a collection of calculated result such as average stress, total energy, etc., in a single file. This file can be opened later and plotted by special software or by any spread-sheet software. The file is tab delimited with the time (in msec) in the first column and all requested results in subsequent columns. The GlobalArchive and GlobalArchiveTime commands selects which analysis results are saved in the global results file and how often they are saved: