Assign inactive elements in mesh

[verakurniawan 0]

Hi

I need help here. I have a mesh that basically cover my study area. I would like to implement pier bridges in my mesh. Correct me if I am wrong, What I did think is to assign inactive elements in the position where my bridge piers located.

But, I face a problem here. You could see the attached file to get a clearer picture.

Basically, I do have CAD drawings that I could load into SMS, so I basically know precisely where my bridge piers located. The thing is most of the bridge piers located at much bigger elements. And I could not easily assign the element nearby the bridge piers to be inactive because then it would not represent the real thing.

Does anybody have suggestion on this? I really appreciate it. Thank you!

Cheers

Vera Kurniawan

[cameronj 1]

If I am going to model piers, I generate the mesh around the piers so that the elements start out small next to the piers and get bigger as they get farther away.