Structural & Thermal

Structural & Thermal

Bolt pretension direction in Large Deflection analysis.

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      When performing a Large Deflection analysis, customer must be aware that bolt pretension direction is constant during the analysis, so initial pretension direction may differ from the actual bolt direction when the force/adjustment is to be applied. See PRETS179 element help (http://goo.gl/W8Yxdl) to know how to update this load direction.