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mjmiddle
Ansys Employee

You have a scissors type structure which will certainly experience bending in some locations. The "bottom" offset is model dependent. View the mesh to see what side elements appear. Yes a surface coating is similar to shells with shared topology, but it should do it properly.

I see a "Stress tool" scoped to a surface coating gives zero results, so I submitted a defect report on that.

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