Discrepancy in Element Stiffness Matrix Output using Substructure Approach

@Disla That seems pretty bad CPS4 has non-zero ZZ stress. I tried refining the mesh and the ZZ stress increases! Seems like you have to use orthotropic material to get actual plane-stress in a CPS4 element?

S4 shell doesn’t seem to have this problem and is maybe a better “plane stress” element?