I would like to measure how much energy it took to deform my model due to the listed external loads, but I am having troubling finding anything with Google or these forums. Additionally, using non-linear I would like to be able to find how much of that energy was elastic and how much plastic. Does anyone have a good tutorial on the subject?
have you tried list selected of total strain energy?
(there are no tutorials that i know of on this subject, we actually recently put together a custom scoped training session for a customer that was looking for information on a similar application)