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Finally, the finite element mesh is given in Fig. 6. Element size was approximately 13.5 mm, since it was determined that this size provides sufficient convergence of results, after a number of iterations. Element type used for this analysis was C3D8R, and the total number of elements and nodes was 30285 and 38330, respectively.

Figure 6: Finite element mesh of the model.

Figure 7: Strain (top) and stress (bottom) distribution in the numerical model.

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