.. _sphx_glr_gallery_elements_beam188:

BEAM188 gallery
===============

Runnable BEAM188 (3D 2-node beam) examples.


.. raw:: html

  <div id='sg-tag-list' class='sphx-glr-tag-list'></div>


.. raw:: html

    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails">

.. thumbnail-parent-div-open

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The 2-node 3D beam element (Euler-Bernoulli slender-beam limit) maps to the natural-coordinate segment s \in [-1, +1]. Translations and torsion use linear shape functions; transverse displacement and slope use Hermite cubics so C^1 continuity holds across element boundaries.">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/elements/beam188/images/thumb/sphx_glr_example_beam2_reference_geometry_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/elements/beam188/example_beam2_reference_geometry`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">BEAM2 reference geometry — Hermite cubic shape functions</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Slender steel cantilever modelled with a line of BEAM2 elements. Two validations:">

.. only:: html

  .. image:: /gallery/elements/beam188/images/thumb/sphx_glr_example_beam188_thumb.png
    :alt:

  :doc:`/gallery/elements/beam188/example_beam188`

.. raw:: html

      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">BEAM2 — cantilever tip deflection and first mode</div>
    </div>


.. thumbnail-parent-div-close

.. raw:: html

    </div>


.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   /gallery/elements/beam188/example_beam2_reference_geometry
   /gallery/elements/beam188/example_beam188