Hello,
I need to design a Skylight which is having Segmented two way Tension rods system (Please see attached PDF). But I am not getting whats element to be used for these tension rods. If I am using Tension rod I cannot do Second order analysis and If I am using cable with zero tension then its showing thousands of warnings. I tried with beam element releasing moment but this also showing compression in tension rods which is not correct.Please suggest something to resolve this issue.
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