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Thank you for your help! To summarize: The calculated rotations from step (1-3) are not the actual rotations of the element at those integration points. They are 'arbitrary' parts that sum up to the total element rotation. To get the displacement distribution, Gaussian Quadrature is not needed at al...

Hi there, I'm trying to calculate the displacements of the element at the integration points (sections) of a displacement based element. I can only record the curvatures at the sections, so I thought I could calculate the deflection at the sections by the following method: 1) Get rotations at the se...