{"id":307782,"date":"2023-09-21T02:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/transfer-just-displacements-to-another-analysis-not-the-stresses\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:55:18","slug":"transfer-just-displacements-to-another-analysis-not-the-stresses","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/transfer-just-displacements-to-another-analysis-not-the-stresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Just displacements to another analysis not the stresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing a structural stress analysis in an assembly the steps I need to do are below:<br \/>1. The assembly will be under loads and temperature and get deformed.<br \/>2. New loads need to be applied on the deformed shape of step 1 without stresses produced in step 1. ( it is assumed that stresses made in step 1 relax over a long time)<\/p>\n<p>I tried to export the deformed Geometry as .stl but repairing the .stl file is so time-consuming. Second way was I took the solution of step 1 and entered into a new analysis as below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/21-09-2023-1695264569-mceclip0.png\"><\/p>\n<p>However, the beam elements twisted and rotated when I entered the Solution from one analysis (Step 1) into another (Step 2):<\/p>\n<p>First step meshed Geometry:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/21-09-2023-1695264659-mceclip1.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Geometry entered in step 2:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/21-09-2023-1695264695-mceclip2.png\" width=\"658\" height=\"207\"><\/p>\n<p>the beam elements are connected to a few shell elements. the shell elements come to the 2nd step of the analysis very good but the beam elements twist and rotate.<\/p>\n<p>Any solution or is there any way to do this any better?<\/p>\n<p>thanks,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-307782","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["12501","170445"],"_bbp_author_ip":["168.143.243.14"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["373"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["307782"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["12501","170445"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["307950"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["307950"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-09-21 18:21:46"]},"test":"5c325989c1c157161ab430f1abbec8ac025ff994"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/307782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/307782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}