{"id":194172,"date":"2021-10-07T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/194172\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:15:39","slug":"194172","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/194172\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Expansion of cylinder using membrane elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Erik<br \/>\nThank you for your quick response.<br \/>\nI attach the structure that I am dealing with.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/369\/4FB6DQ7O50P7.png\" width=\"711\" height=\"462\" \/>When trying the expansion with shell elements, the cylinder starts to expand until the point where it starts to stretch, where it fails to converge.  I attach the failing point below. I only fix the sides and apply pressure.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/869\/56595M7GASO0.png\" width=\"747\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thus, I considered this as a problem of the bending of the shell elements. What is your opinion on that? Should I go for shell or membrane elements?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-194172","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/194172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/194172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}