GeniE Example A9: Tension/Compression analysis

GeniE gives you the possibility to run a tension/compression analysis. A brief explanation on how to do
this in GeniE follows below. For a more detailed explanation and examples, see the tension/compression
manual in your Sestra installation. Note that Sestra D8.5-02 or a later version is required.

To run a tension/compression analysis you need to set the

beam type of the truss elements you want to analyse to
Truss Tension Only or Truss Compression Only.

To create a tension/compression analysis you need to check the Tension/Compression Analysis checkbox
as shown in the illustration.

Its not possible to run a

tension/compression analysis with
a Wave Load Activity.

Before running the

analysis you need to
specify which loadcases
that should be run as
tension/compression. The
remaining loadcases will
be run as a linear structure
analysis.
Note that the loadcases
you include for
tension/compression
need to be the last in
the FEM loadcase
number sequence of the
analysis.

After executing the Tension/Compression analysis you can look at the deformations

and the G-Stress sigxx.

Beam forces are not available for truss elements.

For the test models LC1 and LC3 are identical, and so are LC2 and LC4.

Note the changes in results, since only LC3 and LC4 are executed as Tension/Compression loadcases.