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Mesh generation

Switch to the "Generate mesh" input mode and press the "Generate" button to create the finite element mesh. Note that the mesh density has a significant impact on the resulting factor of safety. The used mesh should be always sufficiently fine. To demonstrate this effect we carried out the analysis for several mesh densities assuming an average element edge length equal to 1.0, 1.3, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 m. In this example the element edge length equal to 1.5m is used.

Generated finite element meshGenerated finite element mesh

After generating the finite element mesh we switch to the 1st stage of construction.




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