The Incrementation page in the Job Diagnostics dialog box displays the incrementation control settings and the resulting incrementation used by Abaqus during the analysis. The Incrementation page is available only if you highlight a step in the Job History tree.
The Status table contents depend on whether you are viewing diagnostic information for an Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit analysis step. For an Abaqus/Standard step the table displays each increment along with the number of attempts, the number of severe discontinuity and equilibrium iterations, the total number of iterations, the step time, and the increment size. For an Abaqus/Explicit step the table displays all summary increments and any additional increments for which diagnostic information was recorded. The critical element, the stable time increment for that element, the elapsed step time, the total time, and the kinetic energy are also listed for each increment. For more information on incrementation diagnostics in Abaqus/Explicit, see “Explicit dynamic analysis,” Section 6.3.3 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide.
If you select a column of data and click Plot selected column, Abaqus/CAE creates an X–Y plot using the increment number (first column) for the X-axis and the selected column for the Y-axis.
Note: You cannot plot the critical element numbers.
