*HEADING : PATCH TEST FOR PIPE ELEMENTS [PIPE21] *NODE 1, 4,10.0 *NGEN 1,4 *ELEMENT,TYPE=PIPE21 1, 1,2 *ELGEN,ELSET=ALL 1,3,1,1 *BEAM SECTION,SECTION=PIPE,ELSET=ALL,MATERIAL=MAT 0.1,0.017435473 *MATERIAL,NAME=MAT *DENSITY 1.0 *ELASTIC 30E6,0.0 *NSET,NSET=END1 1, *NSET,NSET=END2 4, *NSET, NSET=QA_TEST_NODE_TIP END2 *AMPLITUDE, NAME=SMOOTH, DEFINITION=SMOOTH STEP 0.0, 0.0 0.5, 1.0 1.0, 1.0 *BOUNDARY 1,1,2 1,6,6 4,2 ** --------------------------------- *STEP,NLGEOM=YES,NAME=NON-LINEAR *DYNAMIC, EXPLICIT , 1.0 *CLOAD, AMPLITUDE=SMOOTH, OP=NEW 4, 1, 3000. *OUTPUT,FIELD *NODE OUTPUT U,RF *OUTPUT, HISTORY *NODE OUTPUT, NSET=QA_TEST_NODE_TIP UT *END STEP