SuperSTRESS Tip 4

Non-linear capability

The fourth of our user tips involves SuperSTRESS's non-linear capability. There are three main areas of SuperSTRESS which are non-linear, one way acting supports, compression / tension only members and, which is shown below, Large Displacements.

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• If you have a job which has large displacements you may achieve more accurate results by using the Large Displacements option when analysing
  
• Go to Tools>>Settings and select the "Analysis" tab, then check the "Large Displacements" tick box, changing the settings if needed
  
• Then run the analysis again and you should observe different results
  
• In the example above the maximum values for DX displacement reduce from 1403.2 mm to 1393.2 mm
  
  
  
  

More tips and techniques like this are covered in our training course.

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