*HEADING BASIC VERIFICATION - MPC TYPE BEAM with *TRANSFORM & *BUCKLE *NODE 1, 0.000000E+00, 0.000000E+00, 0.000000E+00 2, 1.383686E+00, 1.385641E+00, 1.387596E+00 3, 2.763844E+00, 2.771281E+00, 2.778719E+00 4, 4.141237E+00, 4.156922E+00, 4.172606E+00 5, 5.517170E+00, 5.542563E+00, 5.567955E+00 6, 6.892848E+00, 6.928203E+00, 6.963559E+00 *ELEMENT,TYPE=B32, ELSET=EALL 1,1,2,3 2,3,4,5 *NSET, NSET=TWO 5, *NSET, NSET=THREE 6, *TRANSFORM, NSET=TWO 0.5,0.0,-0.8660254,0.0,1.,0. *TRANSFORM, NSET=THREE 0.5,0.5,0.5,-0.408248,0.8164965,-0.4082482 *BEAM SECTION,SECTION=I,MATERIAL=MAT, ELSET=EALL 0.7,1.4,0.5,0.5,0.3,0.3,0.3 *BOUNDARY 1,1,6 *MPC BEAM,5,6 *MATERIAL,NAME=MAT *ELASTIC 3.E6, *DENSITY 1700., ************************* *STEP *BUCKLE 4, *CLOAD 6,1,-1.0 *MODAL FILE *MODAL PRINT *NODE PRINT,F=0 *EL PRINT, F=0 *ENDSTEP ************************ *STEP,NLGEOM,INC=50 *STATIC,RIKS 0.01,1.0,,,3.0 *CLOAD 6,1,-100. *NODE FILE,FREQ=10 U,COORD, CF, *NODE PRINT,FREQ=100, GLO=yes U,COORD, CF, *EL PRINT,FREQ=0 *END STEP **************************