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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical How to couple nodes to an unused node and applied a load to it? Reply To: How to couple nodes to an unused node and applied a load to it?

ErKo
Ansys Employee
Hi

Use RBE3 (small deflections only), or CERIG (small deflections only) or MPC184 elements (or MPC contacts to do the load transfer).

See the help manual for possible examples and explanation of these commands (the web should have quite a lot of info also).

Thank you

Erik
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