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Why can’t I get stresses after a response spectrum?

Tagged: 17.2, mechanical, response spectrum, Structural mechanics/ response spectrum, structural-dynamics, structural-mechanics
    • June 5, 2023 at 7:04 am
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      Somehow a setting to use “live stress” was set. This setting only applies to static analysis and is used to postprocess a distributed solution without combining the slave results files together. Because live stress is not available for response spectrum your stresses would not plot. A workaround would be to duplicate the modal and response spectrum systems, change them to static systems, turn off live stress and then convert them back to modal and response spectrum.

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