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NULL area(NONE) shell in ETABS

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mhdhamood

Structural
Oct 29, 2014
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HI dears ;
AS far as I know about meshing for shells there are rules governing meshing or drawing areas:
a. Shall connect the corner of area to columns or shear walls otherwise incompatibility problem will arise.
b. Shall not have a distorted shape( internal angles between 45 and 135).
c. Shall not have high aspect ratio (Length to width between 1 and 4 but not more than 10.

The question now : When I draw NULL (NONE)area element, Shall the above points be achieved? especially shall the corner of NULL area be drawn on the column joint otherwise it will impose bad results ?
 
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