{"id":356443,"date":"2024-03-11T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/356443\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:24:55","slug":"356443","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/356443\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Deflections not matching for simple cantilever beam check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Using *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE, the through-thickness integration points are located at the center of each of layer.&nbsp; &nbsp;*ELEMENT_SHELL uses Gaussian integration by default.&nbsp; &nbsp;Integration point locations for Gaussian integration are tabulated under *SECTION_SHELL in the User&#8217;s Manual.&nbsp; &nbsp;I would expect Gaussian integration to be more accurate.&nbsp; &nbsp;If you increase the number of layers in *ELEMENT_SHELL_COMPOSITE, I would expect the solution to improve.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-356443","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/356443","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\/356443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}