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Last post: February 10, 2013 9:21am UTC
February 9, 2013 12:47pm UTC
Solid mechanics and element settings
Hi!
I am analysing stresses and displacements of simple 2D steel plate with Comsol 4.2. I need to get results calculated by triangle linear plane stress elements for comparison.
How can I change element type to linear? Comsol seems to use quadratic elements by default?
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February 9, 2013 3:02pm UTC in response to Erkki Holopainen
Re: Solid mechanics and element settings
Hi
yes COMSOL uses 2nd order (mostly) elements, this is under "Discretization" tab of your main physics node, but it appears only if you turn the extra view mode on: check your "options parameters" and turn discretization view "on" (there are several others there to once you start to understand the details to COMSOL, I run with all on ;)
but it makes your screen full of tabs you do not always need to access
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Good luck
Ivar
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February 10, 2013 9:21am UTC in response to Ivar Kjelberg
Re: Solid mechanics and element settings
Thanks Ivar! I got it now.
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