{"id":356349,"date":"2024-03-11T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/356349\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:08:37","slug":"356349","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/356349\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Connecting beam elements to solid elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of the RBE2 type of connection you are using now, try the RBE3 type of conenction to connect beams to solids.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;RBE3 in LS-Dyna is: *CONSTRAINED_INTERPOLATION&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and is suitable as it says below for the connection you are trying.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/www.dynalook.com\/conferences\/15th-international-ls-dyna-conference\/nvh\/ls-dyna2019s-linear-solver-development-2014-phase1-element-validation-part-ii&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the best&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Erik&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-356349","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/356349","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\/356349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}