How to deactivate MPC184 elements during analysis?

- October 4, 2017 at 12:20 pm
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  How do you deactivate MPC184 elements during an analysis?
- October 17, 2017 at 9:19 am
  
  cbhavsar
  Ansys Employee
  
  MPC184 elements doesn’t support birth/death option. An alternative is to use MPCHG command to change the material number attribute to the elements where material has zero stiffness.