{"id":79847,"date":"2019-03-08T10:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/79847\/"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:07:24","slug":"79847","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/79847\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Link 180 and beam 188 connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link180 is a truss with no rotational dof, thus it should not do anything on the beam (apply moments), since it forms a natural hinge when connected to one .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>2 columns, and 2 link180 representing a cable with a point load at the centre of the cable. As you can see it does not apply any moment on the top of the columns, and rotates like a hinge at their connections. Strand7 gives exactly the same results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So there is no need to end release anything, they form a natural hinge.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/9e073348-362b-4b60-b89c-a9a20154a073\/d7cad707-2e98-4748-8022-aa0a00bd89f7_capture.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-79847","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/79847","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\/79847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}