Thanks! I understand what you are saying. I know that B8 is not the element of choice when it comes to bending problems. I am only using this example using B8 just to benchmark my MATLAB code. My question was more to understand what ABAQUS does in situations when the mesh is coarse B8.
I am trying to verify my finite element analysis codes written in MATLAB with commercial code ABAQUS. I am using a simple cantilever beam bending problem using B8 elements. I am pretty sure my MATLAB code is accurate but the displacements from it don't match the ones from ABAQUS. Does ABAQUS use...
