Deleting Elements in FEM by using a threshold

Hello everybody,

i have some grooves and i need to delete elements in these grooves if the gap width is larger than 2.5 mm.

how can i extract and delete the elements in the groove by using the length of the elements ? all i have is the nodes, the elements and a neighbourmap which shows me which element is my neighbour in the x,y or z direction.

[darova]

You should check length of each element side. Did you try anything? Can you show your attempts?

[bbah]

thank you for the reply. I am trying now to do exactly what you recommend and will tell you if i succeeded. I hope you can help me if not

[darova]

Waiting to hear about your succes