*HEADING
 VARTHICK-M3D4R:  TEST FOR TAPERED MEMBRANES  [M3D4]
*PREPRINT,ECHO=YES,HISTORY=NO,MODEL=YES
*NODE,NSET=BOTTOM
  1,  0.0,  0.0
  2, 10.0,  0.0
  3, 20.0,  0.0
*NODE,NSET=TOP
 101,  0.0,100.0
 102, 10.0,100.0
 103, 20.0,100.0
*NFILL,NSET=NALL
 BOTTOM,TOP,10,10
*NODAL THICKNESS
 BOTTOM,3.
 TOP,1.
*NODAL THICKNESS, GENERATE
 BOTTOM,TOP,10,10
*ELEMENT, TYPE=M3D4R
 1, 1,2,12,11
*ELGEN, ELSET=EALL
 1,2,1,1,10,10,10
*MEMBRANE SECTION, MATERIAL=A1, ELSET=EALL, NODAL
 1.0, 
*MATERIAL, NAME=A1
*ELASTIC, TYPE=ISOTROPIC
 10.E9,
*DENSITY
 8000., 
*BOUNDARY
 BOTTOM,1,6
 NALL,3,3
*AMPLITUDE, NAME=RAMP
 0.0, 0.0, 10.0, 1.0
**
*ELSET,ELSET=QA_TEST_ALLELEMS
EALL,
**
*NSET, NSET=QA_TEST_ALLNODES
BOTTOM, TOP, NALL
**
*STEP
*DYNAMIC, EXPLICIT
 ,10.0
*CLOAD, AMPLITUDE=RAMP
 101, 2, 250.
 102, 2, 500.
 103, 2, 250.
*FILE OUTPUT, TIMEMARKS=YES,NUM=1
*EL FILE
 S,
 STH,
*NODE FILE
 U,
*OUTPUT, FIELD, TIMEMARKS=YES, NUMBER INTERVAL=1
*ELEMENT OUTPUT, ELSET=QA_TEST_ALLELEMS
 S,
 STH,
*NODE OUTPUT, NSET=QA_TEST_ALLNODES
 U,
*OUTPUT,FIELD,VARIABLE=PRESELECT
*OUTPUT,HISTORY,VARIABLE=PRESELECT,TIMEINT=10
***OUTPUT,HISTORY,VARIABLE=PRESELECT
*END STEP