ANSYS take on board RMA's Recommendations
Sunday, March 8, 2015
ANSYS have acknowledged RMA's work on the importance and verification of warping restraint in beam elements and has modified their software to reflect the recommendations made in RMA's article:
The recommendations made by RMA to clarify in the GUI for the beam element key options that changing from KeyOption(1)=0 to KeyOption(1)=1 actually means that the warping formulation has been included rather than it has been included and that warping has been restrained have been actioned in Revision 17 of the software:
