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Ram Gopisetti
Ansys Employee

Hi, 

it maps as pressure not as stress. an wor arud is to use prestress enviroment and built your model as assembly so that the thin filim has the prestress and particels have the mesh incoming to load at the second stage. an sample workflow loks as follows in step 1 

cheers, Ram 

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