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Cantilever beam displacemente

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Gilgamesh99

Automotive
Jun 11, 2013
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Hi:

I'm new with abaqus and this is my question: Im trying to get the displacement of the free end of a cantilever beam using abaqus standard, for some reason, the real displacemente (5.103mm) is not reflected on the .dat file. I vaguely remember the instructor saying that the displacement is not showed exactly on the node but a little inside of the beam. This is the code of my input file:

Code:
*HEADING
CANTILEVER BEAM
*PREPRINT, MODEL=YES
**
**
**
*NODE
1,0,0,0
2,4000,0,0
*ELEMENT, TYPE=B21, ELSET=CANTILEVER
1, 1, 2
*BEAM SECTION, SECTION=RECTANGULAR, ELSET=CANTILEVER, MATERIAL=STEEL
346.,346.
0,0,-1
*MATERIAL, NAME=STEEL
*ELASTIC
28000
*BOUNDARY
1, ENCASTRE
**1,1,3,0
**************************************************************
**************************************************************
***********************HYSTORY********************************
**PERTURBATION ES ANALISIS LINEAL
*STEP, NAME=STEP-1, PERTURBATION
*STATIC
*CLOAD
2, 2, -8000
**
** Output requests
**
*OUTPUT, FIELD, VARIABLE=PRESELECT
*NODE OUTPUT
U, RF
*NODE PRINT
U,
RF,
*EL PRINT
5,4,3,2,1
S11
E11
*END STEP

Hopefully you will be able to help me.

Thank you in advance!
 
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The problem is that I don't have any instrutor anymore, Im on my own. It was only a brief course!
 
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