January 5, 2021 at 5:08 pm
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,kindly try to understand what I am trying to imply here. As shown in the figure as well as you mentioned, there is no reason for the loads and moments to go to the third i.e. the last joint since all of them are going to be transferred from the first joint to the second. nSo now, I have two options. First being I create the end vertex of the line body near the origin of the second fixed joint, or I can create the end vertex of the line body at the end of the long hole of the greenish-gray body [assume it is now a single long hole, with no delibrate cut of faces in between as shown in this post]. The former will have a very small length of deformable element built from the origin of the second fixed joint (or to be more precise, the remote point created there) to the end vertex of line body, while the latter will have a large length of that deformable element. Which one is the correct approach? What should be the difference between these two approaches?.