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Why different between Solid5 and C3D8?

Submitted by frdw on

Has anyone compared the results of Ansys solid5 element and Abaqus c3d8 element? I tried a very simple example with



exactly same conditions for both elements but got very different displacement results. I put both input files here,



can anyone help me check whether there is something wrong? Thanks.



Ansys Input:



/prep7

et,2,solid5,2,,1

mp,ex,2,2.1e11

mp,prxy,2,0.3

K, ,0,0,0, 

K, ,16e-4,0,0,

K, ,16e-4,3.2e-4,0,

K, ,0,3.2e-4,0,  

KGEN,2,all,,,,,2e-4,,0

V,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

TYPE,2

MAT,2

ESYS,0

LESIZE,1,,,5

LESIZE,2,,,1

LESIZE,5,,,1

MSHAPE,0,3D

MSHKEY,1

VMESH,1

D,1,ux,,,,,uy,uz

D,2,uy,,,,,uz

D,8,uz

D,7,uz,1e-4

/solu

solve



Abaqus Input:



*node

1,0.00E+00,0.00E+00,0.00E+00

2,1.60E-03,0.00E+00,0.00E+00

3,3.20E-04,0.00E+00,0.00E+00

4,6.40E-04,0.00E+00,0.00E+00

5,9.60E-04,0.00E+00,0.00E+00

6,1.28E-03,0.00E+00,0.00E+00

7,1.60E-03,3.20E-04,0.00E+00

8,0.00E+00,3.20E-04,0.00E+00

9,1.28E-03,3.20E-04,0.00E+00

10,9.60E-04,3.20E-04,0.00E+00

11,6.40E-04,3.20E-04,0.00E+00

12,3.20E-04,3.20E-04,0.00E+00

13,1.60E-03,0.00E+00,2.00E-04

14,0.00E+00,0.00E+00,2.00E-04

15,1.28E-03,0.00E+00,2.00E-04

16,9.60E-04,0.00E+00,2.00E-04

17,6.40E-04,0.00E+00,2.00E-04

18,3.20E-04,0.00E+00,2.00E-04

19,1.60E-03,3.20E-04,2.00E-04

20,0.00E+00,3.20E-04,2.00E-04

21,1.28E-03,3.20E-04,2.00E-04

22,9.60E-04,3.20E-04,2.00E-04

23,6.40E-04,3.20E-04,2.00E-04

24,3.20E-04,3.20E-04,2.00E-04

*element,type=c3d8,elset=PM

1,1,3,12,8,14,18,24,20

2,3,4,11,12,18,17,23,24

3,4,5,10,11,17,16,22,23

4,5,6,9,10,16,15,21,22

5,6,2,7,9,15,13,19,21

*solid section,elset=PM,material=PE

*material,name=PE

*elastic,type=isotropic

2.1E11,0.3

*boundary

1,1,3

2,2,3

8,3

*step

*static

*boundary

7,3,,1e-4

*node print

u

*end step