Rotary Inertia Element Library

This section provides a reference to the rotary inertia elements available in Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit.

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See Also
Rotary Inertia
*ROTARY INERTIA

Element Types

ROTARYI

Rotary inertia at a point

Active Degrees of Freedom

4, 5, 6

Additional Solution Variables

None.

Nodal Coordinates Required

X, Y, Z

Element Property Definition

Element-Based Loading

Distributed Loads

Distributed loads are specified as described in Distributed Loads.

*dload
  1. Load ID (*DLOAD): ROTA(S)
  2. T−2

  3. Rotary acceleration load (magnitude is input as α, where α is the rotary acceleration).

  1. Load ID (*DLOAD): ROTDYNF(S)
  2. T−1

  3. Rotordynamic load (magnitude is input as ω, where ω is the angular velocity).

Element Output

ELKE

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

Nodes Associated with the Element

1 node.