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[Mansoureh]

Dear friends,

I need to understand for simulating compression test with nonlinear isotropic hardening criteria, which physics performance should we use?

mechanical or nonlinear mechanical?

[Rahul Kumbhar]

Both of these option should be fine as both of them generate qudratic elements. Using nonlinear preference , you may get more smooth mesh and slowly changing mesh. Whereas using Mechanical preference, you might get coarse mesh and transition would be fast by default.

[Mansoureh]

Thank you very much.