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Armin
Ansys Employee

Hi Dennis,

You indicated that the location of load application is at a specific point. How is the evolving direction of the load specified? Is it normal to a particular surface? If so, you can apply pressure instead of force and it always remains normal to the force no matter how the structure is deformed.

As a side note, remember to turn on "Large Deflection" under Analysis Settings to account for nonlinearities arising from large deflection.