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Reaction forces

- October 7, 2021 at 10:46 am
  
  dan
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, I am working on designing a steel and wood helical staircase. The engineer for the architect needs to make sure that the wood framing and its connections can support the loads applied by the stairs. He is asking me for the reaction from the stairs is where it ties into the LVL (engineered wood beam). I am not sure if Discovery live can provide this? If so how?
- October 7, 2021 at 11:22 am
  
  subashni.satish
  Forum Moderator
  
  Hello Ironmandan1 Select a location where you would want to check the reaction forces, and click on the monitors option. The monitors drop down has a couple of options for reaction force and reaction resultant.
- October 7, 2021 at 2:48 pm
  
  dan
  Subscriber
  
  See below.
- October 11, 2021 at 4:34 pm
  
  Ethan Thompson
  Ansys Employee
  
  Ironmandan1 - Contact reaction is not supported in the Explore stage, but is available in the Refine stage. Reaction force and reaction resultant are used at constraints and supports respectively

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