TRUSS ELEMENT

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nima
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TRUSS ELEMENT

Post by nima »

Hello,

I want to know that truss element able to buckling state?

ThANKS
aliirmak
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Post by aliirmak »

I saw in a presentation that someone did the buckling by putting a node in the middle of the element. Yet i don't know the details.
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Post by silvia »

search this forum, there was a discussion about it a few weeks ago.
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