Reply To: Inistate command for cable pretension

[Stella Peloni]

Hello,

In order for the stress to be applied at the cables, you need to select all the cable elements in your model. So, prior to inistate command, you should have something like:

esel,s,ename,,280

Where 280 is the cable element name (Cable280). I am not sure what the *do loop does, but I assume it's for selecting the cables? If yes, please remove the do loop and have the inistate,define as it is. Since, the elements were selected, the prestress will be applied to the cable elements and that is all is needed. 

Regards,

Stella