Besides, your explanation induces me a doubt: even if “the area of interest is not near the bolted joint” I ask myself: but wouldn´t the behaviour of this area be different in the prestressed structure when compared with the “un-stressed” one?
Isn´t it that the reason you can, e.g., import the results of a previous analysis as the initial pre-stressed state by linking two systems in the Project Schematic?
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