regarding methods

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what is the difference between shell method or beam method.what are their advantages.

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Hi Sanjeet,

Both of these methods can be used for roll cage modelling. Since shell elements has more range of deformations than beam elements, modelling with shell will be more accurate. 

I recommend you to go through http://www.altairuniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/meshing.pdf , which is a document on meshing and it contains all the basics on meshing and I hope this will be useful for you.