Reply To: how we can apply a follower load or nonconservative force in ansys ?

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

It is because the native force object inside mech., that generates the folw201 elements in the ds.dat file, uses keyoption(1)=1 – so not to update the direction.

We need a command to activate the update direction (below the type id is 2 for the follw201 element and typed id 1 for beam188):

All the best

Erik