ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual  


24.2.2 Rotary inertia element library

Products: ABAQUS/Standard  ABAQUS/Explicit  ABAQUS/CAE  

References

Element type

ROTARYIRotary inertia at a point

Active degrees of freedom

4, 5, 6

Additional solution variables

None.

Nodal coordinates required

X, Y, Z

Element property definition

Input File Usage:           
*ROTARY INERTIA

ABAQUS/CAE Usage: 

Property or Interaction module: SpecialInertiaCreate: Point mass/inertia: select point: Magnitude: Rotary Inertia


Element-based loading

Distributed loads

Distributed loads are specified as described in “Distributed loads,” Section 27.4.3.


Load ID (*DLOAD):  ROTA(S)

ABAQUS/CAE Load/Interaction:  Not supported

Units:  T–2

Description:  Rotary acceleration load (magnitude is input as , where is the rotary acceleration).

Element output

ELKE

Element kinetic energy (available only from ABAQUS/Standard).


Nodes associated with the element

1 node.