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February 1, 2021 at 12:42 pm
peteroznewman
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nTry it on a 2D plane strain analysis. The equations in that analysis assume strain in the Z direction is zero. The fixed support causes the strain in X and Y to be zero.nAlso, a 2D solution computes much faster. You can make the element size an input parameter and the maximum stress along the edge an output parameter. Then you can make 6 rows in the Parameter Set and automatically get 6 points to plot for a mesh refinement study. n