Reply To: how to calculate the contribution of different parts in the total deformation of a modal structure

[peteroznewman]

Return to your original model and stick with the Young's Modulus method. Are you adding 000 to Young's Modulus to increase it by 1000 times? You are only looking for guidance for the contribution of total deformation among three contributors, and it will not be exact anyway because of nonlinearities. That will be good enough.