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January 19, 2022 at 10:48 pm
peteroznewman
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Read the ANSYS Help, Mechanical APDL, Structural Analysis Guide, Chapter 8.7 on Inverse Solving.
That starts with the deformed shape with a known load and solves for what the shape of the part is with no load.
Open ANSYS Help and copy the URL below, then paste that into the address of the browser running ANSYS Help.
https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v221/en/ans_str/strnonlininversesol.html