Can we give gravity after giving bolt pretension

Altair Forum User

At my practice

 

If today I give the bolts pretension and I want to use this result to give gravity.

 

So we can get the results and without pretension analyzing time, just let the analysis used the pretension result to run the gravity.

 

Also we can use the pretension result run any other situation.

 

How can I do this? 

 

I also meet the problem of 

 

*** ERROR # 1997 *** in the input data:
 In SUBCASE 1: STATSUB(PRETEN) must refer to a SUBCASE above the current one.

 

These are my two step first is gravity and second is my pretension

 

 

Altair Forum User

Hi,

 

Pretension subcase ID should be 1 followed by non-linear subcase. 

Altair Forum User

@Prakash Pagadala Thanks a lot 

 

I have done it.

Altair Forum User

Hi @LKZ

 

Thank you for the update. I hope you are all set now.