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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.

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