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May 28, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Janne
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Hello Asitang,

Thank you for clarifying the issue for me. Let us forget about pure SOLID elements for the moment (I don't even use them). What I do have, is SHELL181 elements connected to SOLSH190 elements. The former has 6 DOFs and latter 3 DOFs. 

So, are you saying that one cannot say for sure that how many DOFs the shared nodes actually have? I did not use any special formulation, I simply made areas that are connected to volumes. The former I meshed with SHELLS and latter with SOLID-SHELLS using Ansys Mechanical APDL.

Thank you!

-Janne