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PTADD – Pretension Load Combination (Superposition)

Description

Defines a pretension load as a linear combination of load sets defined via PTFORCE, PTFORC1, PTADJST and PTADJS1 entries.

Format

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PTADD

PSID

S

S1

L1

S2

L2

S3

L3

 

 

S4

L4

 

-etc-

 

 

 

 

 

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PTADD

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Field

Contents

PSID

Pretensioning load set identification number.

S

Scale factor. See comment 1.

No default  (Real)

Si

Scale factor. See comment 1.

No default  (Real)

Li

Pretension load set identification number defined via entry types enumerated above. See comment 1.

No default  (Integer > 0)

Comments

1.The pretension load as a linear combination is defined by:

ptadd

Where,

S and Si are the scale factors.

Li is the pretension load set defined via PTFORCE, PTFORC1, PTADJST and PTADJS1 entries.

See Also:

Pretensioned Bolt Analysis

Bulk Data Section

Guidelines for Bulk Data Entries

Bulk Data Entries by Function

The Input File