{"id":38696,"date":"2019-11-01T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/bolt-pretension-on-cable-element\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:52:00","slug":"bolt-pretension-on-cable-element","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/bolt-pretension-on-cable-element\/","title":{"rendered":"bolt pretension on cable element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I created a truss composed of cables and link\/truss elements that take compression only. then i tried to apply a bolt pretension to my cables. however i get the following error:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>THE PRETENSION LOAD WAS NOT ABLE TO BE APPLIED.&nbsp; MAKE SURE THE LOAD&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;WAS NOT APPLIED TO A HOLE AND THAT THE LOAD IS NOT APPLIED MORE THAN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;ONCE PER SURFACE.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am new to using bolt pretension; I don&#8217;t know what I am doing wrong. I created my bolt pretension using 3-step analysis where I applied the load in step 1 and locked it in steps 2 and 3. I selected my cable using body selection. I used iterative for Solver Type.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I also tried using INISTATE command; the error remains the same.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>any help as to how to resolve this error would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-38696","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["10874"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["781"],"_bbp_subscription":["244472"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["38696"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","170101"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["97782"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["97782"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-11-04 22:57:28"]},"test":"sam45"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/38696","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\/38696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}