{"id":157981,"date":"2022-06-06T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/is-it-possible-to-change-the-number-of-integration-points-in-a-shell-element\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:16","slug":"is-it-possible-to-change-the-number-of-integration-points-in-a-shell-element","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/is-it-possible-to-change-the-number-of-integration-points-in-a-shell-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to change the number of integration points in a shell element?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.  You can use the MAPDL commands SECTYPE and SECDATA to change the number of integration points though the thickness in a shell.  For example, the following commands could be issued in a Command Object under a \u201cSurface\u201d branch in Mechanical:<br \/>!&#8212;-INPUT PARAMETERS&#8212;-!<br \/>Thick=2 ! Shell Thickness<br \/>Theta=0 ! Angle (in degrees) of layer element coordinate system with respect to element coordinate system (ESYS)<br \/>Int_Points=3! Number of integration points in layer. 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 points (default = 3)<br \/>!&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;END INPUT&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-!<br \/>SECTYPE,matid,shell<br \/>SECDATA, Thick,,Theta,Int_Points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-157981","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-integration-points","topic-tag-secdata","topic-tag-sectype","topic-tag-shell-element"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_btv_view_count":["3152"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/157981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}