I am a doing a research on analysis of hyperbolic paraboloid shell using ansys. After doing the modelling using shell 181 elements i am not able to get proper results can anyone please help out with this issue. My problems are as follows,

1. since hyperbolic paraboloid is an transitional shell how to simulate simple support along the edges? what all degrees of freedom have to be restricted for it?

2. How to get tables for Mx Nx Ny Nxy and deflection?

3. How to get the stresses along cross sections?

image of my model is attached and i am using ANSYS 12.0

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