{"id":287056,"date":"2023-06-05T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/shade-of-inexistent-elements-when-meshing\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:16:02","slug":"shade-of-inexistent-elements-when-meshing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/shade-of-inexistent-elements-when-meshing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shade of inexistent elements when meshing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using Ansys Structural, but whenever I try to do the meshing, something weird happens.<\/p>\n<p>I have a bridge deck with steel girders and some steel stiffeners between the girders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/05-06-2023-1685949101-mceclip1.png\" width=\"1018\" height=\"477\"><\/p>\n<p>I have tried to do the meshing without the stifenners (by supressing them) and the result is that some girders are meshed by tetrahedron and other by hexahedron.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/05-06-2023-1685949132-mceclip2.png\" width=\"1016\" height=\"479\"><\/p>\n<p>I found out that there is some &#8220;shade&#8221; of the stiffeners in the software, therefore in those, the mesh is based on tetrahedron.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/05-06-2023-1685949211-mceclip3.png\" width=\"1009\" height=\"470\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My idea is to first mesh all the slab and the girders using hexahedrons, and then the stiffeners (I don&#8217;t mind which mesh type).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-287056","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mesh","topic-tag-thin-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["2267","200"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.47.145.29"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["365"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["287056"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","2267"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["287523"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["287523"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-06-07 11:53:17"]},"test":"pv00170surrey-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/287056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/287056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}