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dlooman
Ansys Employee

If you are using Workbench (as opposed to APDL input), you would drag and drop a Harmonic Response System from the Toolbox onto the Project Schematic.  In APDL you would issue the commands ANTYPE,HARM and HARF,,Freq where Freq is the frequency of the cyclic loading.