{"id":48991,"date":"2020-10-14T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/2d-element-type-in-workbench\/"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:28:53","slug":"2d-element-type-in-workbench","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/2d-element-type-in-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"2D element type in workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody, nI&#8217;m performing a 2D analysis on ansys transient structural. To be more precise i import a temperature field (variable with time) from fluent and then i process on transient structural to get the stress and the strain of the structure itself. nWell i have a problem with the tensional state of the 2D body:i want to get a plain strain while i get a plain stress. I checked on solution the mesh element and by default i have SHELL181 which has 6 DOF (UX,UY,UZ,ROTX,ROTY,ROTZ). How can i change the mesh element to a planar element with just the plane dof? For instance PLANE42 or another one with only UX,UY,ROTZ degrees of freedom? nI also tried to import my mesh to mechanical APDL, but i suppose i&#8217;m not good at it since i get errors on importing and so on&#8230; nThank in advance!n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-48991","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-2-d","topic-tag-mesh-elements","topic-tag-mesh-generation","topic-tag-transient-structural"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["21217"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":["W?\nr"],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["4022"],"_bbp_subscription":["256377"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["48991"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["81","182245"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["130102"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["130102"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-10-16 11:39:34"]},"test":"francescone96"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/48991","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\/48991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}