{"id":278697,"date":"2023-04-10T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/278697\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:54:51","slug":"278697","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/278697\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Residual stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;After the two load steps (load then unload) you can run a third load step.&nbsp; Assuming you have large deflection on there is no need to export the deformed geometry.&nbsp; It is possible to do what you say, &#8220;use the deformed geometry and map the residual stress as initial stress&#8221; to another model, but it&#8217;s not necesary if you are solving for the initial stress as you describe.&nbsp; The total deformation is the deformation at the end of load step 2.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not zero because you have produced some &#8220;non-recoverable&#8221; plastic strain in load step 1.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-278697","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/278697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/278697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}