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Hello Mohsen,

I am dealing with a similar issue and I am not sure why i am getting more displacement for the "one element" frame rather than the frame with 2 elements.
Did you manage to solve the problem, would you mind if we can share some code to overcome this problem?

Thank you.

Regards,
Imad

Hello and thank you for your reply, I will try your method soon, but theoretically will that cause a stress concentration at that rigid link point ? Comparing this to ABAQUS, one full element/column is modeled, then it is partitioned into 2 parts and each assigned a material without having any stres...

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Apologies for posting in the wrong Forum, I was not aware of that.
(but still if you have an answer for my question, it would be much appreciated).

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