Is it possible to define a prestress at the initial state of a simulation?

[xyont]

an interesting approach from this threads

*INITIAL CONDITIONS on elements or sets of elements

i think i can handle it. I 'll work with sets of elements, *EL PRINT,ELSET=Esets S if necessary with *TEMPERATURE and with Spreadsheet and include the spreadsheet with *INCLUDE, INPUT=INITIAL_CONDITIONS.nam [image] [image] wbr & thnx to Calc_em