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  3. I am working with line bodies in Workbench Mechanical and the “Stiffness Behavior” can be either “Flexible” or “Stiff Beam”. What is the difference?

I am working with line bodies in Workbench Mechanical and the “Stiffness Behavior” can be either “Flexible” or “Stiff Beam”. What is the difference?

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    • March 1, 2022 at 10:57 pm
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      The “Stiff Beam” option approximates a rigid beam by making the Young’s modulus 1e4 times higher than the one defined in the Engineering Data Workspace.
      Additional information can be found in the documentation: ANSYS Documentation > Mechanical Applications > Mechanical User’s Guide > Specifying Geometry > Geometry Introduction > Stiffness Behavior > Stiff Beam

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