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[Seyyede Shahrzad Tabatabaei]

Hello, I have a simple 1D beam created using "Static Structural" in ANSYS Workbench, and would like to find the deformation of the beam, under a "follower" line pressure. I want the distributed load (line pressure) to always remain perpendicular to the beam, throughout the deformation.

Thank you very much.

[Aniket]

Please check:

How can one define a follower load in Mechanical? - Ansys Knowledge

-Aniket

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[Erik Kostson]

 

 

Hi Aniket

This is for a local point/nodal force (follw201 element) and not a distributed line pressure application on a beam element – we do not have a way/load to apply a “follower” line pressure in mechanical. The line pressure in mechanical does not apply a follower pressure, it applies a pressure in a certain global direction.

Erik

 

 

 

 

[Seyyede Shahrzad Tabatabaei]

Thank you both very much for your responses. If I create many point loads along the length of the beam (uniformly distributed along the beam) to simulate a line pressure, and write the command Aniket shared, will the command apply to all the point loads? i.e., will all the point loads become follower type? I want the black point loads to be of follower type and the red load to be in constant y direction. Thanks

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

You would need to modify that script given in the link shared above by Aniket – so that it will apply it to all the beam nodes.

Erik

 

 

[Seyyede Shahrzad Tabatabaei]

Thank you both for your responses.

@Aniket: I was wondering what the second command does:

Thanks

[Seyyede Shahrzad Tabatabaei]

+ Considering my problem which is a beam under n number of loads (to simulate a pressure type force), I assume I need to define n number of remote points along the beam, apply n number of remote forces on them, and write n number of commands for each remote force, am I right? 

And every time, I need to only change these for every remote force:

Thanks