{"id":365452,"date":"2024-05-03T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/applying-a-strain-using-inistate-command\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:43:34","slug":"applying-a-strain-using-inistate-command","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/applying-a-strain-using-inistate-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying a Strain using INISTATE command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear all,<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to simulate the alkali-aggregate reaction that results in a strain of the concrete mass.<\/p>\n<p>First i performed a transient thermal analysis to determine the temperature of each node in each time step.<\/p>\n<p>Then, using the temperature values in each node (in each time step) I calculated the correpondante strain values (using a python script).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now i would like to apply those strains to the nodes in my FE model, for each node i would like to apply a strain value, for each time step.<\/p>\n<p>I have read about the INISTATE command (successfully applied a constant strain value to the geometry) and i would like to ask if this would be a possible solution to my problem and how would it be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-365452","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mechanicalworkbench-1","topic-tag-elasticstrain-1","topic-tag-inistate-command-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["170992","88"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.192.127.11"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["354"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["365452"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["88","170992"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["368458"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["368458"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-05-24 07:43:59"]},"test":"alex1edp"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/365452","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\/365452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}