{"id":326750,"date":"2023-12-06T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/issue-with-tension-only-link180-element\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T12:04:38","slug":"issue-with-tension-only-link180-element","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/issue-with-tension-only-link180-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue with tension only LINK180 element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m building a cable stayed bridge in ANSYS mechanical and struggling to get LINK180 to act in tension only.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used SECCONTROL,,1 after defining the link element with SECTYPE but based on my output it doesn&#8217;t seem to have worked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/06-12-2023-1701902988-mceclip0.png\" width=\"1160\" height=\"770\"><\/p>\n<p>When I plot FXI and FXJ the longest link element still seems to be taking a compressive load as its colour is within the -1966 to -9485 kN range. Am I using SECCONTROL incorrectly or is there some issue with my plot? All I did was make an etable with FXI and FXJ and then plot it with PLLS. The compressed cables are definitely the correct section since I can select them with the section ID.<\/p>\n<p>For more context this is my definition of the link section:<\/p>\n<p>SECTYPE,4,LINK,,Cable<br \/>SECDATA,0.12566370614359174<br \/>SECCONTROL,,1<\/p>\n<p>Any help would be appreciated thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-326750","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-1Dtensiononlyelement-1","topic-tag-bridge","topic-tag-cable","topic-tag-link180"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["302481","50680"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.74.191"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1816"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["326750"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["50680","302481"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["327215"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["327215"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-12-10 12:07:00"]},"test":"daniel-woods-6student-manchester-ac-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/326750","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\/326750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}