Reply To: Thermal expansion collides with expansion reaction

[dlooman]

It might not be possible, but if you want to use thermal strain to simulate the effect of the unwanted chemical reaction you can do it in a separate analysis as I described before.  Before solving in the first analysis you issue INISTATE,WRITE.  This will write the stresses to a file name file.ist.  Then in a completely new analysis you can issue INISTATE,READ to read those stresses into the 2nd analysis and input the 40/30  deg temperature.