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Requesting rotational acceleration from a node/reference point

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hasnun

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Dec 10, 2014
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Hi guys,

I am modelling head impact. I would like to request the rotational acceleration of the center of gravity (CG) of the head. I've created a reference point for the CG, and requested the translational and rotational acceleration for the RP. For the translational acceleration, the value I got for every axis was zero. And for the rotational acceleration, there were no output generated at all. There was a warning "output request ar1 is not valid since it requests output at dof that is not active".

What should I do? Do I have to define a mass for the RP? How do I get the rotational acceleration component written in the output? Thanks.
 
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