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Spring element

User: "Altair Forum User"
Altair Forum User
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Updated by Altair Forum User

Hello Everyone

 

I have question regarding the usage of spring element. I have dogbone shaped geometry. I just want to create a spring element in the middle, so that I can use the displacement of that element in hyperview to analyse force displacement graph. The spring element stiffness should be 0, because I don't want it to have any effect on the overall result.

So I created a two nodes and in the middle a spring element should lie. I used the card image of CELAS1 and defined property PELAS. Under PELAS, I made k=0.

However, in hyperview I see no displacement happening to that point. Please tell me to resolve this issue.  I have attached the screenshots and also the file. It is non-linear quasi static analysis.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>screenshot2.PNG

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