{"id":346598,"date":"2024-01-25T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/346598\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T13:11:04","slug":"346598","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/346598\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: How to set pre-loading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello Jumpei,&lt;br&gt;You can approach the problem in many ways, two of the simple ways can be as follows &#8211;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting the boundary conditions and solving the Analysis system, then linking the Solution of System A to the new System B (which has the boundary conditions for 2nd Step you&#8217;ve mentioned above). Something Similar to what we do for a Prestressed Modal Analysis (<a href=\"\/courses\/index.php\/courses\/modal-analysis-in-ansys-mechanical\/lessons\/how-to-perform-prestressed-modal-analysis-lesson-2-2\/\">Prestressed Modal Analysis | Ansys Innovation Courses<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>This can be one of the preferred methods, which is using &#8216;Steps&#8217;. From the Analysis Settings, you can define the number of steps needed and then activate or deactivate each boundary accordingly for each step. (<a href=\"https:\/\/simutechgroup.com\/ansys-workbench-project-page-multiple-step-analysis\/#:~:text=A%20multiple%20step%20analysis%20can,individual%20step%20can%20be%20tedious.\">Multiple Step Analysis &amp; Project Schematics | Ansys Workbench (simutechgroup.com)<\/a>)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;Hope this helps!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;Thanks,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;Sahil&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;For more exciting courses and certifications, hit this link: <a href=\"\/courses\/\">Ansys Innovation Courses | Ansys Innovation Space<\/a>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;If you are not able to open the links, refer to this forum discussion:&nbsp;&lt;u style=&#8221;color: var(&#8211;bs-link-color); background-color: initial;&#8221;&gt;<a href=\"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-access-the-ansys-online-help\/\">How to access the ANSYS Online Help<\/a>&lt;\/u&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;<a href=\"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/guidelines-for-posting-on-ansys-learning-forum\/#latest\">Guidelines for Posting on Ansys Learning Forum<\/a>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-346598","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/346598","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\/346598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}