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bending beam S4R stocky deflection

Bending stocky S4R beam

Submitted by Staszkinson on
Hello
I'm working on stocky S4R I-beam(nonlinear analysis). Span length is 1.7m and 0.5m heigth. Beam is simply spported and loaded at mid-span by concentrated force.

Unfortunately it looks like my beam is to stiff.
Deflection is smaller than I expected.
Critical load is higher than I expected.

Is this problem connected to bending and shearing stocky element?
Is it about timoshenko/bernoulli beam theory? In my case I use shell elements.