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Reusing a deformed geometry for a new study

Posted May 8, 2017, 5:50 p.m. EDT Structural Mechanics Version 5.2 0 Replies

Joseph Favata
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My goal is to model a loading on a wire that has some slack. So, ideally, the wire should deform under some predefined displacement initial condition and then be subjected to a load.

I am trying to reuse the geometry from the initial displacement step so that the stresses associated with this displacement (which are not strictly correct because the original model did not account for slack) are not accounted for during the loading. I followed basic workflows from other forum posts, to export and import the first step's mesh, but it only yields the undeformed mesh.

Please advise.
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