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Erik Kostson
Ansys Employee

 

Hi

Membrane needs a pretension to build up bending stiffness – (by default there is none - bending stiffness ),

 

One can use the inistate command to add some tension (hence bending stiffness) before adding lateral pressure loads.

 

See this post that answers and shows this:

 

/forum/forums/topic/membrane-simulation-using-shell181/

/forum/forums/topic/how-to-use-membrane-elements-in-workbench/

 

 

All the best

 

Erik