Time Step

/DT

Set time step defaults for all elements.

/DT/AMS

Set elementary time step for Advanced Mass Scaling (AMS).

/DT/Eltyp/Iflag

Set time step for select entities (shell, brick, beam, airbag, interface, etc.).

/DT/Eltyp/Keyword3/Iflag

Set time step with selected entities  (shell, brick, beam, airbag, interface, etc.) and time step control (stop criteria for time step or set constant time step).

/TT/GLOB

Global time step estimation, enables setting the time step to a higher value than the usual elementary or nodal time step.

/DT/NODA/Keyword3

Set nodal time step control.

/DT/SHELL

Set time step control for shell elements.

/DT/SHNOD or /DT/SHNOD/CST

Used to apply an imposed nodal time step for SHELL and SH3N elements sub-cycling: mass will be added, if the nodal time step for shells sub-cycling.

/DT/SPHCEL

Used to generate the SPH cells time step.

/DT/SPHCEL/Keyword3

Used to generate the SPH cells time step control type (STOP, DEL or KILL).

/DT/THERM

Use to set time step for thermal modeling and it is much larger than the mechanical time step and; therefore, lower computational time cost.

/DT1/SHELL

Use for alternate Time Step for Shell Elements than what is defined in /DT/SHELL during the computation.

/DTIX

Set initial and maximum time step for the run.

/DTSDE

Used to set alternate Time Step for degenerated solid 6-node element and PENTA6 solid element.