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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical How to apply a stress as an initial load state ? Reply To: How to apply a stress as an initial load state ?

dlooman
Ansys Employee

If your initial analysis is of a cantilever in which the tip load displaces the cantilever in the negative Y, the second analysis with the prestress, but without the tip load, will displace the cantilever an equal amount in the positive Y.  You aren't seeing something like that?

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