{"id":47197,"date":"2020-08-09T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/shape-functions-of-elements-in-mesh\/"},"modified":"2020-08-09T13:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:11:23","slug":"shape-functions-of-elements-in-mesh","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/shape-functions-of-elements-in-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape functions of Elements in mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all,I have generated a shell and beam mesh in Ansys Workbench, and would like to include the shape functions that are used for the interpolation by the solver in my final report . I have BEAM188 elements and SHELL181 elements. The Theory Reference I found online showed that there are different options for shape functions for BEAM188 (linear, quadratic, cubic). However, I do not find a way to extract the type that is actually used from the program. Can anyone help me with this?nFrom the Input File i have copied the following for the BEAM188 elements:net,1073,188nkeyo,1073,3,2neblock,19,solid,,8n(19i9)n1072\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01072\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01072\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01072\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0\u00a025126\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06411\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06412\u00a0\u00a022521nI&#8217;m  guessing that the second line in this set of commands sets the shape functions, but I don&#8217;t understand exactly what it says. Any help is greatly appreciated.n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-47197","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-shape-functions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["19394"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":["*\u0002??Lg?\u0000H\u001e?\r?ng\u0011"],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2361"],"_bbp_subscription":["251570"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["47197"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","177419"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["123876"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["123876"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-08-10 04:04:42"]},"test":"kristofvc"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/47197","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\/47197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}