{"id":55220,"date":"2017-10-18T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/55220\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T04:51:24","slug":"55220","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/55220\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Using the degenerated tetrahedral and pyramid shapes for SOLID185"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">No. SOLID185 is a lower order element without mid-side nodes. Section 2.5.1 of the MAPDL Element Reference Manual contains a detailed discussion on why using &#8220;degenerated elements formed from quadrilateral and brick elements without mid-side nodes&#8221; is not recommended. Here is the link to that section of the Help System. help\/ans<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">elem\/Hlp<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">E<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">CH2<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">8.html Also, Benchmark C1 from the Verification Manual contains a sample model that demonstrates that using degenerated lower order elements can produce inaccurate results+. Here is a link to the section of the Help System. help\/ans<\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">vm\/Hlp<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">V_VMC1.html<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-55220","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/55220","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\/55220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}