Why is Moment load in conjunction to Pressure and Gravity not solving for more than 10mins on 6 cores

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Hi @PhilippTheEngineer, I had 3 DCoup3D/ElementSet/nodes to connect to 3 nSet, so for me, the nSet looked like below

As all ELSET had to have a material, the Sections part looks like this

Next is Element connection which looks like the figure below. In general add it as following:

1. Element type DCOUP3D with ELSET defined above and a new element number not previously used, connected to a node number that you will define in step 2 below
2. next a new node number, not previously used, with its new co-ordinates defined
3. next, Distributing Coupling with ELSET defined in step 1 and in second line use the NSet previously defined, for me I had defined nwLeft, nwRight, nwEnd.
   
   

Next, add CLoad for the node numbers you defined in second step

And thats it, this worked for me. Do let me know if it works for you.

Kind regards
Dharmit