{"id":5593,"date":"2013-08-21T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Femap-Tips-amp-Tricks-Solid-Mesh-with-Beam-Elements\/ba-p\/3673"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:55:44","slug":"femap-tips-tricks-solid-mesh-with-beam-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/femap-tips-tricks-solid-mesh-with-beam-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap Tips &amp; Tricks: Solid Mesh with Beam Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Structures like reinforced concrete where steel rebar in encased in solid concrete can be represented by 1-D rod or beam elements for the rebar inside solid 3-D tet-elements for the concrete. When setting up such a model you have to take care to ensure that the mesh is contiguous and that the 1-D elements connect with the 3-D elements correctly. In this tips and tricks video you\u2019ll see how you can set this up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/femap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lia-vid-container video-embed-center\">\n<div id=\"lia-vid-IyODR4ZDpe_3u0TqqdtFy0O9YGNz5mT-w596h336r216\" class=\"lia-video-ooyala-player-container\"><\/div>\n<p>LITHIUM.OoyalaPlayer.addVideo(&#8216;https:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/static\/v4\/production\/&#8217;, &#8216;lia-vid-IyODR4ZDpe_3u0TqqdtFy0O9YGNz5mT-w596h336r216&#8217;, &#8216;IyODR4ZDpe_3u0TqqdtFy0O9YGNz5mT-&#8216;, {&#8220;pcode&#8221;:&#8221;sxdjkxOluLl_gSQrV57FiGraFE2-&#8220;,&#8221;playerBrandingId&#8221;:&#8221;ODI0MmQ3NjNhYWVjODliZTgzY2ZkMDdi&#8221;,&#8221;width&#8221;:&#8221;596px&#8221;,&#8221;height&#8221;:&#8221;336px&#8221;});<a class=\"video-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/video\/gallerypage\/video-id\/IyODR4ZDpe_3u0TqqdtFy0O9YGNz5mT-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(view in My Videos)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structures like reinforced concrete where steel rebar in encased in solid concrete can be represented by 1-D rod or beam elements for the rebar inside solid 3-D tet-elements for the concrete. When se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":5594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,182],"tags":[5],"industry":[],"product":[501],"coauthors":[42800],"class_list":["post-5593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks","tag-cae-simulation","product-simcenter-femap"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/Tip23_SolidMeshBeams_110x110.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}