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PRETENSION ON BEAMS
Problem/Description:
How to define pretension on a beam?

Solution:
In the example below, the beam in the middle is prestressed with an effort of 1000N.
The command PSMESH creates the element of pretension (PRETS179). The localization of the
pretension section can be done with a local coordinate system or a node ID.
The command SLOAD is used to defined the pretension value (with an effort or a displacement).

Model Result

Pretension of 1000N

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APDL Script:

fini
/clear

/prep7

k,1001,358,-924,7480
k,1002,348,-924,7480
k,1003,348,-904,7480
k,1004,348,-944,7480
k,1005,358,-904,7480
k,1006,358,-944,7480

l,1001,1002,6
l,1005,1001,1
l,1001,1006,1
l,1003,1002,1
l,1002,1004,1

et,1000,188
type,1000
secnum,1000
mp,ex,1000,210000
mp,nuxy,1000,0.3
mat,1000

sectype,1000,beam,csolid
secdata,1.6,16,4

lmesh,all
/eshape,1

lsel,s,line,,1
esll
cm,vis1,elem

cmsel,s,vis1

! PSMESH avec repre

!local,12,0,353,-924,7480,0.,0.,0.
!PSMESH,10000, ,,ALL, ,12,X,

! PSMESH avec noeud

PSMESH,10000,,,all,,0,x,,node(353,-924,7480)

sload,10000,pl01,lock,forc,100,1,2

alls
DK,1003,all,0
DK,1004,all,0
DK,1005,all,0
DK,1006,all,0

/SOL
ANTYPE,0

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SOLVE

/post1
set,last
plnsol,u,sum

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