Ibrahim,

I noticed by looking at a lot of threads that the kind of problems that surface here are complex and design related. I also am aware of the need to rely on the experience of my company's senior engineers. This particular kind of support was, in fact, proposed to me by one of them.

That being said, I do have a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and do understand such concepts as thermal expansion, stiffness, shear, torsion, bend stresses in beams and pipes, finite element analyses, rigidity matrices, ...

All I want is for one of the many experts on here with Caesar II to take a minute of their time to help me translate the physical behaviour I understand into the appropriate steps with the software. As I said, I've run into some contradictions by reading the documentation and experimenting with the software.

Thank you for your consideration.