I am attempting to get correct displacements for a simple beam with an enforced rotation applied to one end -- please see the attached .dat file. "Correct displacements" are ones where the free end of the beam moves in an arc, not in a line. In my case of a beam oriented along the X axis and rotated about the Y axis, the end node should have both Z and X displacements. However, I am not able to get this result.
D I S P L A C E M E N T V E C T O R
POINT ID. TYPE T1 T2 T3 R1 R2 R3
1 G 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
2 G 0.0 0.0 -1.745330E-01 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
3 G 0.0 0.0 -3.490660E-01 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
4 G 0.0 0.0 -5.235990E-01 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
5 G 0.0 0.0 -6.981320E-01 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
6 G 0.0 0.0 -8.726650E-01 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
7 G 0.0 0.0 -1.047198E+00 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
8 G 0.0 0.0 -1.221731E+00 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
9 G 0.0 0.0 -1.396264E+00 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
10 G 0.0 0.0 -1.570797E+00 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
11 G 0.0 0.0 -1.745330E+00 0.0 1.745330E-01 0.0
As you can see, only T3 (Z) has a value. No X. How do I get the correct "arc" displacements?
NOTE: I cannot try solution 400 because we do not have a license for it. Seems like SOL 106 should be able to do this...
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