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Using beam element to simulate rebar, in ls-prepost preprocessing I can see that the cross section of the beam elememt is circular, but after submitting the calculation to ls-dyna, the cross section of the beam element shown in ls-prepost postprocessing becomes a rectangular cross section, is this normal?

[Alex Rycman]

Hello,

The information about beam cross section is included only in k-file. Therefore, while post-processing the beam elements on the result files (d3plots) the LS-PrePost will display the beams with the rectangular beam cross section (default). The workaround is to open d3plot and k-file simultaneously (File->Open->LS-DYNA Keyword+D3plot).

Thank you,
Alex

[646247561]

Thank you, your answer is very helpful!