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Still about dofs

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Hi, all

I want to solve a plane stress problem for a simple rectangle. I discretized the domain with 800 quadratic elements, and I also changed the order of the displacement to be linear. But, I got 4922 dofs when solving the displacement field. I am confused by the result, even though I have checked all the informations for the dofs.

Can anyone tell me why this happens, and how can I do it if I only want 2 dofs at each node?

Thanks,

0 Replies Last Post Feb 8, 2014, 6:03 p.m. EST
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