Thanks Greg !
My beam was 1 meter long and you are right the best result came from 10 elements. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to these things. If you could recomend a good book please do.
After reading the DOC in Cosmos I was under the impression that increasing the numer of elements was...
Thanks !
I was trying to model a beam 0.1 by 0.1 by 1m . What surprized me was the fact that the deflection was almost proportional with the number of elements generated and that in 5 or 6 successive tests starting with 40 elements and ending with 12000 there was no indication of convergence...
Without having any knowledge of the FEA "inner workings" I've tried to model a rectangular beam with solid elements
( Thetra4 ) in Cosmos. The beam is fixed at one end and loaded at the other. To my surprize the deflection appeared to be proportional to the number of elements.Why...
