{"id":170721,"date":"2023-06-05T07:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/can-elbow-elements-be-defined-in-mechanical-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:33:38","slug":"can-elbow-elements-be-defined-in-mechanical-2","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/can-elbow-elements-be-defined-in-mechanical-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can ELBOW elements be defined in Mechanical ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, though the following procedure : First, create the beam model and define the beam&#8217;s model type to &#8220;Pipe&#8221;. Then, in the boundary conditions, add a &#8220;Pipe Idealization&#8221; condition. This will transform the mesh of selected edges from PIPE elements to ELBOW elements.  More information on Pipe Idealization can be found in the Ansys Help : Mechanical Applications \/ Mechanical User&#8217;s Guide \/ Setting up boundary conditions \/ Types of boundary conditions \/ Conditions Type Boundary Conditions \/ Pipe Idealization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-170721","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-beams-and-shells","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-modeling-and-meshing","topic-tag-structural-mechanics-modeling-and-meshing","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27793"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["1315"],"siebel_km_number":["2048976"],"product_version":[""],"km_published_date":["2017-03-30T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical"],"_edit_lock":["1705041155:80072"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170721","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\/170721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}