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Modeling thin-wall beam with Sap2000

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Qin

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I have a beam with tube section. Since I want to know the detailed stress distribution on the cross section and maybe I will need to model the beam with a cut along it, what kind of element should I use to model it? shell or solid? how? Thanks
 
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