Hi

I was trying to find out the results of a cantilever beam with an end load and trying to match results with Handcalc/ Autopipe and CAESAR.
A short beam indeed with L/D around 15. My handcalc results & FEA results were little different ( because my PL3/3EI neglected shear deformation effect) and hence wanted to clarify.

I have two questions

1. Does CAESAR II use TIMOSHENKO beam for its 3D beam element or EULER BERNOULLI?

2. Is there a way I can input shearmodulus into CAESAR?.I wish to input a higher value of shearmodulus to remove the shear deformation effects for academic interest and compare with handcalcs.

Any reply to this would be appreciated

brittlespring
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