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As one can see from the table above the results do not change much as the mesh is refined. After 32 elements, the total deformation has converged up to the sixth decimal place. The exact solution for the deformation is cubic and for this setup ANSYS uses element BEAM 188 which in turn uses cubic interpolation. Thus, for the simple cantilever beam setup the numerical method converges very quickly.

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