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I'm modeling a simple steel beam in Abaqus 6.7-1 for catenary action analysis. The beam is symmetrically loaded with 6 concentrated framed-in beam loads, it's own dead load, and a large midspan concentrated load. I'm using a RIKS analysis for only the midspan load. I broke the loadings into 6 different steps. The first step is dead load. Each of the next four steps is a quarter of the total framed-in beam loads. The final step is the midspan RIKs load. My question is, does abaqus add a previous load step to the following load step? If I eventually want all of the loads to be acting at once, do I have to put all of the loads in the final step, or will abaqus add all of the previous loads to the final load step? Thanks.
I'm modeling a simple steel beam in Abaqus 6.7-1 for catenary action analysis. The beam is symmetrically loaded with 6 concentrated framed-in beam loads, it's own dead load, and a large midspan concentrated load. I'm using a RIKS analysis for only the midspan load. I broke the loadings into 6 different steps. The first step is dead load. Each of the next four steps is a quarter of the total framed-in beam loads. The final step is the midspan RIKs load. My question is, does abaqus add a previous load step to the following load step? If I eventually want all of the loads to be acting at once, do I have to put all of the loads in the final step, or will abaqus add all of the previous loads to the final load step? Thanks.