March 2, 2023 at 1:53 pm
Chandra Sekaran
Ansys Employee

  1. Define Transient Analysis

  2. NROPT, FULL

  3. !Select all nodes

  4. !Select all elements attached to the nodes

  5. EKILL, ALL

  6. !Plot ‘live elements’ (to check whether the Ekill command is executed, you may need to turn off the PowerGraphics

  7. !Select EVERYTHING (Selects all activated and deactivated elements)

  8. constrain the deactivated elements if you want them to be born in the current configuration
  9. solve load step with killed elements
  10. If you now want to make the killed elements alive in next load step use EALIVE (???)
  11. remove constraints on dead elements as appropriate. 
  12. solve