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Hourglass Stiffness of Reduced Integration

Thread starter Cansand
Start date May 8, 2007

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May 8, 2007

Cansand

Structural

Any one can give guidlines on assigning Hourglass Stiffness whose use is associated with using Reduced Integration elements. I completely do not know how to specify appropriate and convenient values for obtaining convergence without affecting accurecy.
The matter is limitedly explained in the Doc
Thanks