Randel Ilumin
Subscriber

Hello. I would like to ask how about in the case of using APDL? How to apply acceleration and how to consider boundary conditions at the ground level. Also, how about the effect of gravity load? I tried to develop a command but I'm not really sure about this. I really need help. Thank you.

/SOLU

FILE = ‘accelvalidate1’

DT = 0.01

SKIP = 0

/INQUIRE,NUMLINES,LINES,FILE,TXT

READ = NUMLINES - SKIP

*DEL,ACCEL,,NOPR

*DIM, ACCEL,TABLE, READ - 1, 3

*TREAD,ACCEL,FILE,TXT,,SKIP

ANTYPE, TRANS

TRNOPT,FULL

TIMINT,ON,STRUC

ACEL,0,9.806,0

KBC,0

OUTRES,ALL,1

OUTPR,BASIC,ALL

NT = READ

NSUBST,1,,,1

*do,i,1,NT

TIME,i*DT

CMSEL,ALL

NSEL,S,LOC,Y,0

DDELE,ALL,ACCX

DDELE,ALL,ACCY

DDELE,ALL,ACCZ

D,ALL,ACCX,ACCEL(i,1)

D,ALL,ACCY,ACCEL(i,2)

D,ALL,ACCZ,ACCEL(i,3)

ALLSEL

SOLVE

*enddo