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Answer: Please note that the deck and the girders are connected to common joints to model a composite action. The jumps in the moment diagram at these connection points are caused by forces that are being applied by the deck to the girders at these connections. You can reduce these jumps if you refine the discretization for the shell or frame elements to make these connection points distributed closely to each other.

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